pepo

See also: pepò and Pepo

English

WOTD – 30 March 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Compare pumpkin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.poʊ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧po

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Noun

pepo (plural pepos)

1. A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
2. A plant producing such a fruit.
   • 1945, George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest, Issue 5, page 25

     The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.

Synonyms

• (fruit): gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash, cucumber
• (plant): cucurbit

Translations

kind of fruit

• Finnish: kurkku (fi), meloni (fi), kurpitsa (fi) (no single word covering all)
• French: pépon (fr) m, péponide (fr) f
• Italian: peponide (it) m

• Portuguese: pepónio (pt) m
• Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)
• Spanish: pepónide (es) m
• Tagalog: daykutbunga
• Welsh: pepo m

plant producing such a fruit

• Finnish: kurkkukasvi (fi)

• Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)

Anagrams

• EPPO, Pope, peop., pope

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Esperanto

Noun

pepo (accusative singular pepon, plural pepoj, accusative plural pepojn)

1. a chirp, peep, twitter
2. (Internet) a tweet

Related terms

• pepi (“to chirp”)

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Guaraní

Noun

pepo

1. wing

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Italian

Verb

pepo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pepare

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Kaingang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪˈpo/

Noun

pepo

1. toad

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.poː/, [ˈpɛpoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.po/, [ˈpɛːpɔ]

Noun

pepō m (genitive peponis); third declension

1. pumpkin, large melon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pepō	peponēs
Genitive	peponis	peponum
Dative	peponī	peponibus
Accusative	peponem	peponēs
Ablative	pepone	peponibus
Vocative	pepō	peponēs

Related terms

• mēlopepō

Descendants

• → Albanian: pjepër, pjep
• Aromanian: peapini, peapine, piponj
• → English: pepo
• → French: péponide
• Middle French: pompon
  • → Dutch: pompoen
    • Afrikaans: pampoen
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: pampuna
    • Negerhollands: pampuen, pampon
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: pum pum (dated)
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: pampun
    • → Papiamentu: pampuna, pampoena
    • → Sranan Tongo: pampun
    • → West Frisian: pompoen
  • → English: pompion, pumpkin
    • → Welsh: pwmpen
• Italian: popone
• Portuguese: pepino
• Romanian: pepene
• Spanish: pepino, pepón
• → Translingual: Pepo

References

• pepo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pepo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Swahili

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Noun

pepo (n class, plural pepo) or pepo (ma class, plural mapepo)

1. spirit, demon

Noun

pepo

1. plural of upepo