piper

See also: Piper

English

piper (playing bagpipes)

Etymology 1

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪ.pə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪpə(r)

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

1. A musician who plays a pipe.
2. A bagpiper.
3. A baby pigeon.
4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

Synonyms

• (bagpiper): bagpiper
• (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bagpiper
• hornpiper
• pay the piper

• Pied Piper
• who pays the piper calls the tune

Translations

musician who plays a pipe

• Arabic: زَمَّار m (zammār)
• French: joueur de pipeau m, joueuse de pipeau f
• Greek: αυλητής (el) m (avlitís)

  Ancient Greek: αὐλητής m (aulētḗs), αὐλητρίς f (aulētrís)

• Hebrew: חֲלִילָן (he) m (ẖalilán)
• Irish: píobaire m
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• Italian: pifferaio (it) m
• Portuguese: flautista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: fluierar (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: pìobair m
• Serbo-Croatian: frulaš (sh)

bagpiper — see bagpiper

baby pigeon — see squab

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

piper

1. Archaic form of pepper.

Anagrams

• PIREP

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• piperu, chiper

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).

Noun

piper m

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

• mpipiredz

See also

• pipercã
• sari

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Latin

piper (pepper)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.per/, [ˈpɪpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.per/, [ˈpiːper]

Noun

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

1. pepper

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	piper	pipera
Genitive	piperis	piperum
Dative	piperī	piperibus
Accusative	piper	pipera
Ablative	pipere	piperibus
Vocative	piper	pipera

Derived terms

• piperātārius
• piperātōrium
• piperātum
• piperātus
• piperita

Related terms

• piperītis

Descendants

• Dalmatian: pepro
• Friulian: pevar
• Galician: prebe
• Italian: pepe
• Lombard: pever
• Norman: (Jersey) paîvre
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: pebre
  • Occitan: pebre
• Old French: peivre
  • Middle French:
    • French: poivre
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: pebre
• Romansch: paiver, peiver, pever
• Sardinian: pibere, pibiri, pipere
• Sicilian: pipi
• Venetian: pévaro
• → English: piper
• → Old Dutch: *pipar, *pepar
  • Middle Dutch: peper
    • Dutch: peper
• → Old High German: pfeffar, pfeffur
  • Middle High German: pfeffer
    • Cimbrian: fèffar
    • German: Pfeffer
    • Hunsrik: Peffer
    • Luxembourgish: Peffer
    • Pennsylvania German: Peffer
    • Yiddish: פֿעפֿער (fefer)
• → Old Irish: pipur
• → Old Norse: piparr
  • Faroese: pipar
  • → Latvian: pipars
  • Old Danish: pipær
    • Danish: peber
      • → Icelandic: pipar
  • Old Swedish:
    • → Finnish: pippuri
      • → Northern Sami: bihppor
    • Swedish: peppar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pepar
• → Proto-Slavic: *pьpьrь (see there for further descendants)
• → West Germanic: *piper
  • Old English: pipor, piper
    • Middle English: peper
      • English: pepper (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: peper, pepar, pepir
      • Yola: pipper
  • Old Frisian: piper
    • Saterland Frisian: Pieper
    • West Frisian: piper

References

• “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “piper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piper”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pipor.

Noun

piper

1. Alternative form of peper

Etymology 2

From Old English pīpere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er; compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pfīfari.

Alternative forms

• pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpər(ə)/

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.

Descendants

• English: piper
• Scots: piper

References

• “pīper(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.

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Norman

Verb

piper

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piper m or f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

piper f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.per/

Noun

piper m

1. Alternative form of pipor

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Romanian

piper

Etymology

From Bulgarian пипе́р (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).

Noun

piper m

1. pepper (plant)
2. pepper (spice)

See also

• sare

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Swedish

Verb

piper

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of pipa.

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West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

1. pepper (spice)

Further reading

• “piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011