pimiento

pimiento
Meaning

  1. (masculine) pepper (fruit of the capsicum)
  2. (masculine) pepper plant
  3. (Guatemala,Mexico,Peru,Spain,US,masculine) bell pepper (ellipsis of pimiento morrón.)

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Hyphenated as
pi‧mien‧to
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/piˈmjento/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin pigmentum. Compare the borrowed doublet pigmento.

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