pimento

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/

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pimento (plural pimentos or pimentoes)

1. A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:

     In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.

2. A tropical berry used to make allspice.
3. The tree on which it grows.

• (red sweet pepper): cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika
• (tropical berry): allspice

• emption

pimentää (“to darken”) +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈpimento/, [ˈpime̞n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -imento
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧men‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧men‧to

pimento

1. (figuratively) dark, darkness (place hidden from the sight)

   pitää joku pimennossa

   to keep someone in the dark

• pimittää

• “pimento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /piˈmento/ [piˈmẽn̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ento
• IPA^(key): /piˈmɛnto/ [piˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: pi‧men‧to

pimento m (plural pimentos)

1. alternative form of pemento

Borrowed from French piment, Spanish pimiento, etc. from Latin pigmentum. Doublet of pigmento.

• IPA^(key): /piˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: pi‧mén‧to

pimento m (plural pimenti)

1. pimento
2. allspice

• in tempo

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.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: pi‧men‧to

pimento m (plural pimentos)

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

   Synonym: pimentão

• pigmento
• pimenta