Meanings
plural pimentos · plural 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.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14Synonyms: cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika
- The tree on which it grows.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
nounA tropical berry used to make allspice.
More synonyms by meaning
nounplant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpigmentum“coloring; colorful thing”
- Portuguesepimento“bell pepper; later any pepper”
- Englishpimento
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.
More words from Portuguese, Latin
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Arabic فُلْفُل حُلُو
- فُلْفُل حُلُو (fulful ḥulū)red sweet pepper
Basque jamaikako piperbeltz
- jamaikako piperbeltztropical berry
Bulgarian бахар
- бахар (bahar)tropical berry
Finnish paprika, maustepippuri
- paprikared sweet pepper
- maustepippuritropical berry
- maustepippuripuun marjatropical berry
German Piment
- Pimenttropical berry
Icelandic allrahanda
- allrahandared sweet pepper
Irish pimeantó
- pimeantóred sweet pepper
Italian pimento
- pimentored sweet pepper
Polish pimento, ziele angielskie
- pimentored sweet pepper
- ziele angielskietropical berry
Portuguese pimento
- pimentored sweet pepper
Spanish pimentón
- pimentónred sweet pepper
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Cite this entry
pimento. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pimento
“pimento.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pimento. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pimento,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pimento.
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