different between piper vs plumber

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa?.p?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pa?.p?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(r)

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

1. A musician who plays a pipe.
2. A bagpiper.
3. A baby pigeon.
4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
6. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.

Synonyms

• (bagpiper): bagpiper
• (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

piper

1. Archaic form of pepper.

Anagrams

• PIREP

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• piperu, chiper

Etymology

From Greek ?????? (pipéri), from Ancient Greek ?????? (péperi).

Noun

piper m

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

• mpipiredz

See also

• pipercã
• sari

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi.per/, [?p?p?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.per/, [?pi?p?r]

Noun

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

1. pepper

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• piper?t?rius
• piper?t?rium
• piper?tum
• piper?tus
• piperita

Related terms

• piper?tis

Descendants

Borrowings

References

• piper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• piper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• piper in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piper in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pipor.

Noun

piper

1. Alternative form of peper

Etymology 2

From Old English p?pere; equivalent to pipe +? -er; compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pf?fari.

Alternative forms

• pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?p?r(?)/

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.

Descendants

• English: piper
• Scots: piper
• Yola: peepeare

References

• “p?per(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.

Norman

Verb

piper

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piper m or f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

piper f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi.per/

Noun

piper m

1. Alternative form of pipor

Romanian

Etymology

From Bulgarian ?????? (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *p?p?r?, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek ?????? (péperi), from Sanskrit ??????? (pippali).

Noun

piper m (plural piperi)

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

Declension

See also

• sare

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?p?r/

Verb

piper

1. present tense of pipa.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian piper, from Proto-West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek ?????? (péperi), ultimately from an Indo-Aryan source.

Noun

piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

1. pepper (spice)

Further reading

• “piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumb?rius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pl?m?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl?m?/
• Rhymes: -?m?(r)
• Homophone: Plummer

Noun

plumber (plural plumbers)

1. One who works in or with lead.
2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
   1. One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
3. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information
4. (Britain, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
5. (medicine, slang) A urologist.
   • 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)

     […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.

   • 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School (page 127)

     Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.

Derived terms

Related terms

• plumbing

Descendants

• ? Irish: pluiméir
• ? Welsh: plymer

Translations

References

• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1]

Anagrams

• replumb

Latin

Verb

plumber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumb?