amargo (Portuguese)
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amargo（ポルトガル語）
Amargo (Portuguese) is the Portuguese adjective and noun amargo. Besides taste, it is used figuratively for painfulness and distress.
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Amargo is a Portuguese adjective and noun. Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa defines its taste sense as 『Que tem sabor acre e desagradável.』 (in translation: "Having a sharp, unpleasant taste").
The same dictionary gives the figurative use 『[Figurado] Doloroso; penoso.』 (in translation: "Figuratively: painful; distressing"). Its etymology section gives 『Origem: latim amarus, -a, -um.』 (in translation: "Origin: Latin amarus, -a, -um").
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amargo — Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa
Checked for this overview: Presented the definition of a sharp, unpleasant taste. / Presented the figurative sense of pain and distress. / Added the Latin amarus etymology.
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Scope: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, headword amargo, adjective sense 1.
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concept-word-amargo-pt —is_defined_in_dictionary_as→ "『Que tem sabor acre e desagradável.』 (in translation: "Having a sharp, unpleasant taste"), sense 1."Scope: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, headword amargo, adjective sense 2.
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concept-word-amargo-pt —is_presented_as→ "『[Figurado] Doloroso; penoso.』 (in translation: "Figuratively: painful; distressing"), sense 2."Scope: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, headword amargo, etymology section.
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concept-word-amargo-pt —has_name_etymology→ "『Origem: latim amarus, -a, -um.』 (in translation: "Origin: Latin amarus, -a, -um")."