Noun: amaretto
| Singular | amaretto |
| Plural | amarettos; amaretti |
Sample Sentences
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Amaretto makes a fine digestive.
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Gino has an amaretto on the porch after every elaborate meal.
Nouns inflected like amaretto
sbirro,
vetturino,
capocollo,
clavicembalo,
decrescendo,
scherzando,
bambino,
concerto,
descrescendo,
zufolo,
stornello,
cavaletto,
inamorato,
zuffolo,
secondo,
rifacimento,
paesano,
pianissimo,
palazzo,
pandoro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian amaretto, from amaro (“bitter”) (from Latin amarus) + diminutive suffix -etto. See: Italian Nouns '
amaretto', Latin Nouns '
amarus'.