Feminine

pimenta

  1. (countable, feminine) pepper (plant)
  2. (Brazil, countable, feminine) pepper (fruit)
  3. (Brazil, Portugal, countable, feminine) pepper (fruit)
  4. (feminine, uncountable) pepper (spice)
  5. (countable, feminine) hot sauce

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/piˈmẽ.tɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese pimenta, from Latin pigmenta, form of pigmentum (“pigment”), from pingō (“to paint”), Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”).

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