pimenta

pimenta (plural pimentas)

1. pimento
   • 1814, John Lunan, Hortus jamaicensis, page 67:

     The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island […]

• naptime

pimenta

1. third-person singular past historic of pimenter

pimenta

1. inflection of pimentare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• pentima

From Old Galician-Portuguese pimenta, from Latin pigmenta, form of pigmentum (“pigment”), from pingō (“to paint”), Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”).

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Homophone: Pimenta
• Hyphenation: pi‧men‧ta

pimenta f (plural pimentas)

1. pepper (plant)

   Synonym: pimenteiro

2. (uncountable) pepper (spice)
3. pepper (fruit)