agrio
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]agrio
Spanish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in the 16th century. From Early Modern Spanish agro (used until the 17th century), from Old Spanish agro, from Late Latin ācrus, from Classical Latin ācer (“sharp, piercing, pungent”).[1]
The ending -io is due to influence from the verb agriar (“to sour”), or alternatively from a Vulgar Latin *acridus. Coromines and Pascual say that although agriar is not attested until the 18th century, they nevertheless suspect it may have existed much earlier.[1]
Related to Old Spanish agrión (“berro”), Mozarabic *aqriyûn (perhaps read *aqriyûl or *uqurión), and Occitan agriota. Cognate with Old French aigre, Italian agro, and Romanian acru.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]agrio (feminine agria, masculine plural agrios, feminine plural agrias)
- sour
- Synonym: amargo
- La toronja está muy agria.
- The grapefruit tastes very sour.
- tangy
- (figurative) (of a person) bitter
- Synonym: amargado
Derived terms
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[edit]Verb
[edit]agrio
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “agrio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 77
Further reading
[edit]- “agrio”, 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
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