pimento

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
noun fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked

Etymology

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.

In classic literature

Lucien was not a little surprised to learn that this beautiful vegetable belonged to the same botanical family as the potato, the tomato, the egg-plant, and the pimento. — Adventures of a Young Naturalist, Lucien Biart
Of this kind are molasses, coffee, cocoa-nuts, tobacco, pimento, ginger, whalefins, raw silk, cotton, wool, beaver, and other peltry of America, indigo, fustick, and other dyeing woods; secondly, such as are not the peculiar produce of America, but which are, and may be produced in the mother country, though not in such quantities as to supply the greater part of her demand, which is principally supplied from foreign countries. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Synonyms

sweet pepper, bell pepper, pimiento, paprika, sweet pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum

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