pimento

Meaning

sweet pepper, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum, an edible vegetable)

Hyphenated as

pi‧men‧to

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/piˈmẽ.tu/

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.