peper
Middle English
/ˈpɛpər/
noun
Definitions
- pepper a spice made from the fruit of the plant Piper nigrum
- (rare) The plant that produces the fruit required to make pepper; the pepper plant.
- (rare) A spicy or bitter concoction.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English pipor derived from Latin piper (pepper) derived from Ancient Greek πέπερι (pepper).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πέπερι
Gloss
pepper
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Culpepper English
- bepepper English
- old man's pepper English
- peppadew English
- pepper English
- pepperberry English
- pepperbox English
- pepperbush English
- peppercorn English
- pepperer English
- pepperette English
- peppergrass English
- pepperless English
- pepperlike English
- peppernut English
- peppershaker English
- peppershrike English
- pepperwood English
- pepperwort English
- peppery English
- wallpepper English
- peperomia Latin
- piper Latin
- piperatus Latin
- piperitus Latin
- pipere Hungarian
- pepe Italian
- peperone Italian
- pevere Italian
- peperina Spanish, Castilian
- πέπερι Ancient Greek
- ὑδροπέπερι Ancient Greek
- piper Old English
- pipor Old English
- piporcorn Old English
- पिप्पलि Sanskrit
- corn Middle English
- peper corn Middle English
- pepyrquerne Middle English
- piper Middle English
- pipere Middle English
- pyper Middle English
- quern Middle English
- pipari Old Norse
- piparr Old Norse
- peber Danish
- *pьpьrь Proto-Slavic
- peivre Old French
- poivre Old French
- pàprika Serbo-Croatian
- páprika Serbo-Croatian
- pebre Catalan, Valencian
- prebe Galician
- πιπέρι Greek (modern)
- *peffar Old High German
- pheffar Old High German
- *piper gmw-pro
- *pipar Old Dutch
- *pipar Old Saxon
- pebre Occitan
- pipar Old Swedish
- paiver Romansh
- uphepha Zulu
- pevar Friulian
- pipur Middle Irish
- pepa Marshallese
- pévaro Venetian
- pepa Tok Pisin
- pepro Dalmatian
- pever Mòcheno
- pöber North Frisian
- pever Lombard
- papa Inupiaq