English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French piment. See pimento, pimiento, and pigment.

Noun

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piment (countable and uncountable, plural piments)

  1. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices or honey.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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French

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /pi.mɑ̃/
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Noun

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piment m (plural piments)

  1. chili, chili pepper
  2. (figuratively) spice (vigour)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: piment
  • Japanese: ピーマン (pīman)
  • Korean: 피망 (pimang)

Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French piment.

Noun

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piment m (plural piments)

  1. (Jersey) chili pepper, pimento
  2. (Jersey) balm
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