BITTER Copy link • BITTERin taste, amarus, acerbus. A bitter taste, sapor amarus or acerbus: taste in the mouth, os amarum. To become bitter, amarescere, inamarescere. Somewhat bitter, subamarus. Bitter sweet, ex dulci amarus. Violent, severe, acerbus; gravis. Bitter want, summa egestas, mendicitas. Bitter hate, acerbum odium. A bitter enemy, acerbus inimicus. Bitter cold, frigus acerbum. Biting, cutting, reproachful, acerbus, amarus, mordax, aculeatus.