different between wiper vs piper

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wa?p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(r)

Etymology 1

wipe +? -er

Noun

wiper (plural wipers)

1. Someone who wipes.
   • 1842, Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", in Dramatic Lyrics

     So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!

2. Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
3. Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
4. A movable electric contact in some devices.
5. (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.

Derived terms

• wiper wheel

Translations

Etymology 2

From white (bass) and striper.

Noun

wiper (countable and uncountable, plural wipers)

1. A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.

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