pepo

Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Doublet of pumpion; compare pumpkin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.poʊ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧po

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pepo (plural pepos)

1. A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
2. A plant producing such a fruit.
   • 1945, George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest, Issue 5 edition, page 25:

     The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.

• (fruit): gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash, cucumber
• (plant): cucurbit

• EPPO, Pope, peop., pope

• IPA^(key): /ˈpepo/
• Rhymes: -epo
• Hyphenation: pe‧po

pepo (accusative singular pepon, plural pepoj, accusative plural pepojn)

1. a chirp, peep, twitter
2. (Internet) a tweet

• pepi (“to chirp”)

Cognate with Old Tupi pepó.

• IPA^(key): [peˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: pe‧po

pepo

1. wing

pepo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pepare

• IPA^(key): /pɪˈpo/

pepo

1. toad

From Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέσσω (péssō, “ripen”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.po]

pepō m (genitive peponis); third declension

1. melon (picked ripe)
   1. Cucumis melo: true melons
   2. Citrullus lanatus: watermelon

• See also cucumis.

Third-declension noun.

• mēlopepō

• “pepo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pepo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to upepo (wind), see https://x.com/BantuLanguages/status/1871462313661796788”)

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.pɔ/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛ.pɔ/

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pepo class V or IX (plural mapepo class VI or pepo class X)

1. spirit, demon

pepo class X

1. plural of upepo