pimento
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- pimento
- allspice
Etymology
Borrowed from French piment (chili pepper) borrowed from Spanish, Castilian pimiento (bell pepper, later any pepper) derived from Latin pigmentum (pigment, color, coloring, colorful thing, dye, colour, paint).
Origin
Latin
pigmentum
Gloss
pigment, color, coloring, colorful thing, dye, colour, paint
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
塗
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- piment English
- pimiento English
- pigmentarius Latin
- pigmentum Latin
- pingo Latin
- Pigment German
- Piment German
- pigmento Italian
- pimentare Italian
- pigment Dutch, Flemish
- pigment French
- piment French
- pimenter French
- pigmento Spanish, Castilian
- pimiento Spanish, Castilian
- *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- pigment Norwegian Bokmål
- pigmento Portuguese
- pimento Portuguese
- ピーマン Japanese
- pigment Norwegian Nynorsk
- pigment Middle English
- pigment Catalan, Valencian
- pemento Galician
- pigmento Galician
- piment Norman
- pimienta Old Spanish
- pima Mauritian Creole
- piman Seychellois Creole
- piman Antillean Creole