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pimento

/pɪˈmɛntəʊ/ UK
/pɪˈmɛntoʊ/ US

Where it comes from

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.

noun pimentos · pimentoes

A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice. In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
Similar: cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika
A tropical berry used to make allspice.
Similar: allspice
The tree on which it grows.

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noun red sweet pepper

Español	pimentón
Português	pimento
Italiano	pimento
العربية	فُلْفُل حُلُو fulful ḥulū

noun tropical berry

Deutsch	Piment

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Chicago

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BibTeX

@misc{pimento_2026,
  title = {pimento},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pimento},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}