Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.
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pimento (plural pimentos or pimentoes)
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pimento
Inflection of pimento (Kotus type 1*J/valo, nt-nn gradation) | |||
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nominative | pimento | pimennot | |
genitive | pimennon | pimentojen | |
partitive | pimentoa | pimentoja | |
illative | pimentoon | pimentoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pimento | pimennot | |
accusative | nom. | pimento | pimennot |
gen. | pimennon | ||
genitive | pimennon | pimentojen | |
partitive | pimentoa | pimentoja | |
inessive | pimennossa | pimennoissa | |
elative | pimennosta | pimennoista | |
illative | pimentoon | pimentoihin | |
adessive | pimennolla | pimennoilla | |
ablative | pimennolta | pimennoilta | |
allative | pimennolle | pimennoille | |
essive | pimentona | pimentoina | |
translative | pimennoksi | pimennoiksi | |
abessive | pimennotta | pimennoitta | |
instructive | — | pimennoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
pimento m (plural pimentos)
Borrowed from French piment, Spanish pimiento, etc. from Latin pigmentum. Doublet of pigmento.
pimento m (plural pimenti)
From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), from pingō (“to paint”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”). Doublet of pigmento, a borrowing.
pimento m (plural pimentos)