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clove

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kl??v/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /klo?v/
  • Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

From Middle English clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin cl?vus (nail) for its shape. Also see cl?va (knotty branch, club). Doublet of clou.

Noun

clove (countable and uncountable, plural cloves)

  1. (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
  2. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
  3. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
    • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
      Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod 6+1?2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
Derived terms
  • clove camphor
  • clove gillyflower
  • clove pink (Dianthus caryophyllus)

Related terms

  • cloy
  • cloying
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English clove, from Old English clufu, from Proto-Germanic *klub?, related to cl?ofan (to cleave, split), hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

  1. Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic.
Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

clove

  1. simple past tense of cleave
Related terms
  • cloven

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dutch kloof.

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

  1. (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

Usage notes

  • Mainly used in proper names, such as Kaaterskill Clove.

Further reading

  • clove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Covel

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English clufu, clofu; compare cleven.

Alternative forms

  • clof, clowe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kl??v(?)/

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

  1. clove (bulb of garlic)
Descendants
  • English: clove
  • Scots: clow
References
  • “cl?ve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Etymology 2

From Old French clou de girofle.

Noun

clove

  1. Alternative form of clowe

Etymology 3

From Old English clofen, past participle of cl?ofan.

Noun

clove

  1. Alternative form of cloven

Etymology 4

From Old English cl?af, 1st- and 3rd- person simple past singular of cl?ofan, with the vowel from the past participle.

Verb

clove

  1. simple past singular of cleven (to split)

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pimento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (bell pepper; later any pepper), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (coloring; colorful thing), from pingo (paint) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??m?nt??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /p??m?nto?/

Noun

pimento (plural pimentos or pimentoes)

  1. A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
  2. A tropical berry used to make allspice.
  3. The tree on which it grows.

Synonyms

  • (red sweet pepper): cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika
  • (tropical berry): allspice

Translations

Anagrams

  • emption

Finnish

Etymology

pimentää (to darken) +? -o

Noun

pimento

  1. (figuratively) dark, darkness (place hidden from the sight)
    pitää joku pimennossa
    to keep someone in the dark

Declension

Related terms

  • pimittää

Galician

Noun

pimento m (plural pimentos)

  1. Alternative form of pemento

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piment, Spanish pimiento, etc. from Latin pigmentum. Doublet of pigmento.

Noun

pimento m (plural pimenti)

  1. pimento
  2. allspice

Anagrams

  • in tempo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin pigmentum (pigment), from ping? (I paint), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (spot, color). Doublet of pigmento, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /pi.?m?.tu/
  • Hyphenation: pi?men?to

Noun

pimento m (plural pimentos)

  1. sweet pepper, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum, an edible vegetable)
    Synonym: pimentão

Related terms

  • pigmento
  • pimenta

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