The story
- Latin · derived fromamārus“bitter”
- Italian · borrowed frommarasca
- English todaymarasca
From Italian marasca, from amarasca, from amaro (“bitter”), from Latin amārus (“bitter”).
Words from the same roots
Latinamārus all →
amarettomorelloamarelleamaritudebetulinamaric acidconvallamarin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.