🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

pimienta

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pimienta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pepper/ˈpɛpər/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La sopa necesita más sal y pimienta."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A pungent, hot-tasting powder obtained from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice.

    "Pass the salt and pepper, please."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Old English pipor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch peper and German Pfeffer, via Latin piper from Greek piperi, ultimately from Sanskrit pippali 'berry, long pepper'.

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