piment
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French piment. See pimento, pimiento, and pigment.
Noun edit
piment (countable and uncountable, plural piments)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “piment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin pigmentum. In Old French, piment (also pimenc) had meant 'balsam, fragrant spice'. Certain modern senses represent semantic loans from Spanish pimiento. Doublet of pigment, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piment m (plural piments)
- chili, chili pepper
- (figuratively) spice (vigour)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
→ Japanese: ピーマン
→ Korean: 피망 (pimang)
Further reading edit
- “piment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
piment m (plural piments)
- (Jersey) chili pepper, pimento
- (Jersey) balm