The story
- Latin · derived frompigmentum“pigment”
- Middle English · inherited frompigment
- English todaypigment
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Words from the same roots
Latinpigmentum all →
pimentopimiento
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.