different between piment vs pimenta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French piment. See pimento, pimiento, and pigment.

Noun

piment (plural piments)

1. (obsolete) wine flavoured with spices or honey

Anagrams

• pitmen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum. Doublet of pigment, a borrowing from Latin. See also the inherited Old French piment, pimenc ("spiced wine").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.m??/

Noun

piment m (plural piments)

1. (cooking) spice
2. chili, chili pepper
3. (figuratively) spice (vigour).

Derived terms

• pimenter
• piment de Cayenne

Further reading

• “piment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French piment.

Noun

piment m (plural piments)

1. (Jersey) chili pepper, pimento
2. (Jersey) balm

English

Noun

pimenta (plural pimentas)

1. pimento
   • 1814, John Lunan, Hortus jamaicensis (page 67)

     The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island […]

Anagrams

• naptime

French

Verb

pimenta

1. third-person singular past historic of pimenter

Italian

Verb

pimenta

1. third-person singular present indicative of pimentare
2. second-person singular imperative of pimentare

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pimenta, from Latin pigmenta, form of pigmentum (“pigment”), from ping? (“I paint”), Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“spot, color”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pi.?m?.ta/, /pi.?m?.t?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pi.?m?.t?/
• Hyphenation: pi?men?ta

Noun

pimenta f (plural pimentas)

1. pepper (plant)

   Synonym: pimenteiro

2. (uncountable) pepper (spice)
3. pepper (fruit)

Derived terms

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