Etymology

paprika

pa·pri·ka
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Today it means: Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking). Full definition →

Hungarian paprika ← Serbo-Croatian pàprika ← Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь
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The story

  1. Indo-Aryan · derived from
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromπέπερι“pepper”
  3. Latin · derived frompiper
  4. Proto-Slavic · derived from*pьpьrь
  5. Serbo-Croatian · derived frompàprika
  6. Hungarian · borrowed frompaprika
  7. English todaypaprika

Borrowed from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar, from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), from Indo-Aryan; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). Akin to paprikash.

Words from the same roots

Latinpiper all →

pepper

Ancient Greekπέπερι all →

pepper

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.