pimento

Meaning

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

Concepts

sweet pepper

chili

pepper

pimento

chili pepper

bell pepper

🫑

chilly

jalapeno

paprika

pimiento

chile

🇨🇱

chili con carne

long pepper

Capsicum annuum grossum

Capsicum annuum longum

sweet pepper plant

capsicum

cayenne

cayenne pepper

chilli

chilli pepper

Synonyms

pimentão

piripiri

Chili

Translations

poivron

piment

peperone

🫑

Paprika

paprika

peperoncino

pimiento

pebrot

chilipeper

pimentón

chile

biber

Chili

paprika

Pronounced as (IPA)

/piˈmẽ.tu/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: pigmentum

In summary

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.