pimienta

From pimiento (“pepper plant”), from Latin pigmentum (“color, pigment”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈmjenta/

pimienta f (usually uncountable)

1. pepper, peppercorns
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 4r:

     Negra es de color ⁊ pareſce en ella ya q̃to de uermeiura; aſſi que ſemeia alos granos dela pimienta.

     It is black in color, but it also has to it some redness, so that it resembles peppercorns.

• pimiento

• Spanish: pimienta

Inherited from Old Spanish pimienta, from pimiento (“pepper plant”), from Latin pigmentum (“color, pigment”). Compare Portuguese pimenta.

• IPA^(key): /piˈmjenta/ [piˈmjẽn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: pi‧mien‧ta

pimienta f (plural pimientas)

1. pepper (herb, peppercorns)

• → Bikol Central: paminta
• → Cebuano: paminta
• → Karao: paminta
• → Tagalog: paminta
• → Waray-Waray: paminta

• “pimienta”, 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