pepita

Borrowed from Spanish pepita.

pepita (plural pepitas)

1. An edible seed from a pumpkin or similar squash, which may - after being roasted (and, if needed, shelled) - be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient in cooking.
2. A gold nugget, or pepito.

• pumpkin seed, pumpkinseed

• pepita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /peˈpi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: pe‧pì‧ta

pepita f (plural pepite)

1. nugget, especially of gold or platinum
2. alternative form of pipita

• appetì, pepati, pipate

Borrowed from Spanish pepita, diminutive of pepa.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -itɐ

pepita f (plural pepitas)

1. an ore nugget

pepita m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of pepit

Unknown origin. Likely from Latin pepō (“pumpkin”) and related to pepino and Portuguese pevide.

• IPA^(key): /peˈpita/ [peˈpi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: pe‧pi‧ta

pepita f (plural pepitas)

1. pepita (an edible seed from a pumpkin or squash)

   Synonyms: pipa, pepa

2. nugget, especially of gold or platinum

• → Portuguese: pepita

• pepita on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• “pepita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024