different between pimento vs pimenta

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

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)

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