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): /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/ (US) IPA(key): /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/ === Noun === pimento (plural pimentos or pimentoes) A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice. A tropical berry used to make allspice. The tree on which it grows. ==== Synonyms ==== (red sweet pepper): cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika (tropical berry): allspice ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === emption == Finnish == === Etymology === pimentää (“to darken”) +‎ -o === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpimento/, [ˈpime̞n̪t̪o̞] Rhymes: -imento Syllabification(key): pi‧men‧to Hyphenation(key): pi‧men‧to === Noun === pimento (figuratively) dark, darkness (place hidden from the sight) pitää joku pimennossa to keep someone in the dark ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== pimittää === Further reading === “pimento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023 == Galician == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /piˈmento/ [piˈmẽn̪.t̪ʊ] Rhymes: -ento IPA(key): /piˈmɛnto/ [piˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ʊ] Rhymes: -ɛnto Hyphenation: pi‧men‧to === Noun === pimento m (plural pimentos) alternative form of pemento == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /piˈmen.to/ Rhymes: -ento Hyphenation: pi‧mén‧to === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French piment, Spanish pimiento, etc. from Latin pigmentum. Doublet of pigmento. ==== Noun ==== pimento m (plural pimenti) pimento allspice === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Old Italian piumento, from Latin pigmentum. ==== Noun ==== pimento m (plural pimenti) (archaic, regional) alternative form of pigmento === Anagrams === in tempo == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), from pingō (“to paint”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”). Doublet of pigmento, a borrowing. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ẽtu Hyphenation: pi‧men‧to === Noun === pimento m (plural pimentos) (Portugal) sweet pepper, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum, an edible vegetable) Synonym: pimentão ==== Related terms ==== pigmento pimenta ==== Descendants ==== → English: pimento === Further reading === “pimento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “pimento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026