piment

Borrowed from French piment. See pimento, pimiento, and pigment.

piment (countable and uncountable, plural piments)

1. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices or honey.

• “piment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pitmen

Inherited from Latin pigmentum. In Old French, piment (also pimenc) had meant 'balsam, fragrant spice'. Certain modern senses represent semantic loans from Spanish pimiento. Doublet of pigment, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /pi.mɑ̃/

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piment m (plural piments)

1. chili, chili pepper
2. (figuratively) spice (vigour)

• → English: piment
• → Japanese: ピーマン (pīman)
• → Korean: 피망 (pimang)

• “piment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French piment.

piment m (plural piments)

1. (Jersey) chili pepper, pimento
2. (Jersey) balm