See also: Pimenta

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pimenta (plural pimentas)

  1. pimento
    • 1814, John Lunan, Hortus jamaicensis, page 67:
      The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island []

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pimenta

  1. third-person singular past historic of pimenter

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pimenta

  1. inflection of pimentare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese pimenta, from Latin pigmenta, form of pigmentum (pigment), from pingō (to paint), Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (spot, color).

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pimenta f (plural pimentas)

  1. pepper (plant)
    Synonym: pimenteiro
  2. (uncountable) pepper (spice)
  3. pepper (fruit)

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