pepo

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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 edition, 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.

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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”)

Guaraní

Noun

pepo

  1. wing

Italian

Verb

pepo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pepare

Kaingang

Pronunciation

Noun

pepo

  1. toad

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέσσω (péssō, “ripen”).

Pronunciation

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

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Descendants

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.

Swahili

Etymology

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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
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