pimenta
See also: Pimenta
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Noun edit
pimenta (plural pimentas)
- 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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Verb edit
pimenta
- third-person singular past historic of pimenter
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pimenta
- inflection of pimentare:
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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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Noun edit
pimenta f (plural pimentas)
- pepper (plant)
- Synonym: pimenteiro
- (uncountable) pepper (spice)
- pepper (fruit)