pimenta

See also: Pimenta

English

Noun

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 […]

Anagrams

• Tepiman, naptime, paiment

French

Verb

pimenta

1. third-person singular past historic of pimenter

Italian

Verb

pimenta

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

Anagrams

• pentima

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈmẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈmẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈmẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /piˈmẽ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧men‧ta
• Homophone: Pimenta

Noun

pimenta f (plural pimentas, diminutive pimentinha, augmentative pimentão)

1. (countable) pepper (plant)

   Synonym: pimenteiro

2. (countable) pepper (fruit)
   1. (Brazil) fruit pertaining to the genus Capsicum

      Synonyms: (Portugal) pimento, (Portugal) malagueta, (Portugal) piripíri / piri-piri, (Angola) jindungo

   2. (Brazil, Portugal) fruit pertaining to the genus Piper

      Synonym: (Mozambique) pimenta-redonda

3. (uncountable) pepper (spice)
4. (countable) hot sauce

Derived terms

• pimenta nos olhos dos outros é refresco, pimenta no cu dos outros é refresco, pimenta no dos outros é refresco
• pimenta síria
• pimenta-caiena
• pimenta-calabresa
• pimenta-cumari
• pimenta-da-áfrica
• pimenta-da-guiné
• pimenta-da-jamaica
• pimenta-de-macaco
• pimenta-de-são-tomé
• pimenta-de-sichuan
• pimenta-dedo-de-moça
• pimenta-do-japão
• pimenta-do-reino
• pimenta-longa
• pimenta-malagueta, pimenta malagueta
• pimenta-negra
• pimenta-preta, pimenta preta
• pimenta-redonda
• pimenta-rosa, pimenta rosa
• pimentão (augmentative)
• pimentinha (diminutive)

Related terms

• apimentado
• apimentar
• pigmento
• pimental
• pimenteira
• pimenteiral
• pimenteiro
• pimento

Further reading

• “pimenta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pimenta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “pimenta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “pimenta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026