Amarone

• amarone

First attested in the 1950s–60s; from Italian amarone, augmentative form of amaro (“bitter”), a likely calque of Venetian amaron.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌaməˈɹəʊnɪ/, /ˌaməˈɹəʊneɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑməˈɹoʊneɪ/
• Rhymes: -əʊni, -əʊneɪ
• Hyphenation: ama‧ro‧ne

Amarone (countable and uncountable, plural Amarones)

1. An Italian full-bodied ruby to garnet red wine, characterized by a pungent, almost bitter taste. It is made in the Valpolicella region from dried-after-picking grapes of the Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara varieties.

• “Amarone”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed February 3, 2019.
• “Amarone”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Amarone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Romaean, Romæan, neorama

Amarone m (plural Amarones)

1. Alternative letter-case form of amarone