acerbo

From Latin acerbus.

• Rhymes: -ɛɾbo
• Hyphenation: a‧cer‧bo

acerbo (feminine acerba, masculine plural acerbos, feminine plural acerbas)

1. acerbic

• “acerbo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “acerbo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Latin acerbus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃɛr.bo/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrbo
• Hyphenation: a‧cèr‧bo

acerbo (feminine acerba, masculine plural acerbi, feminine plural acerbe, superlative acerbissimo)

1. unripe, premature
2. acerbic, sour, bitter, harsh, crude
3. hard, severe

• acerbamente

• acerbità

• acerbo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bacerò, borace, orbace

From acerbus (“harsh, bitter”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkɛr.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈt͡ʃɛr.bo]

acerbō (present infinitive acerbāre, perfect active acerbāvī, supine acerbātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to make harsh or bitter, embitter
2. (transitive) to augment or aggravate something disagreeable, make worse, exacerbate

• English: acerbate, exacerbate
• → Translingual: Acerbas

• “acerbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acerbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acerbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) he has had many painful experiences: multa acerba expertus est
    

Borrowed from Latin acerbus.

acerbo (feminine acerba, masculine plural acerbos, feminine plural acerbas)

1. acerbic (bitter to the taste)

• acerbamente

• acerbidade

• “acerbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

acerbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of acerbar

• “acerbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin acerbus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈθeɾbo/ [aˈθeɾ.β̞o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /aˈseɾbo/ [aˈseɾ.β̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾbo
• Syllabification: a‧cer‧bo

acerbo (feminine acerba, masculine plural acerbos, feminine plural acerbas)

1. acerb (bitter to the taste)
2. acerbic (sour or bitter)
3. biting, scathing, acerbic

• “acerbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025