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From Italian amaretto, from amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amarus) + diminutive suffix -etto.
amaretto (countable and uncountable, plural amarettos or amaretti)
- (uncountable, countable) A sweet-bitter liqueur originating from Italy (but also produced in Turkey), flavored with almonds and a secret blend-specific mix of some 200 ingredients such as the pits from apricots, peaches, cherries or other stone fruits.
- Hypernym: ratafia
Amaretto makes a fine digestive.
- (countable) A glass of that liqueur.
Gino has an amaretto on the porch after every elaborate meal.
- (countable) A light Italian cookie made with almonds.
a sweet almond-flavoured liqueur
- Bulgarian: горчив бадемов ликьор
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 意大利苦杏酒 (Yìdàlì kǔxìngjiǔ)
- Czech: amaretto n
- Dutch: amaretto (nl) m
- Finnish: amaretto (fi)
- French: amaretto (fr) m
- German: Amaretto (de) m
- Greek: αμαρέτο (el) n (amaréto)
- Italian: amaretto (it) m
- Japanese: アマレット (ja) (amaretto)
- Portuguese: amaretto m, amareto m
- Russian: амаре́тто (ru) n (amarétto)
- Spanish: amaretto (es) m
- Yiddish: אַמאַרעטאָ (amareto)
Borrowed from Italian amaretto.
amaretto m (plural amaretto's, diminutive amarettootje n)
Borrowed from Italian amaretto, from amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amārus) + diminutive ending -etto.
amaretto m (plural amarettos)
- “amaretto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From amaro (“bitter”) + -etto (diminutive suffix), ultimately from Latin amārus.
amaretto m (plural amaretti)
- the sweet-bitter liqueur amaretto
amaretto m (plural amarettos)
- amaretto (a sweet almond-flavoured liqueur)