"piment" meaning in French

See piment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pi.mɑ̃/ Audio: Fr-piment.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-piment.wav [France], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-piment.wav [France, Vosges] Forms: piments [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Latin pigmentum. In Old French, piment (also pimenc) had meant 'balsam, fragrant spice'. Certain modern senses represent semantic loans from Spanish pimiento. Doublet of pigment, a borrowing from Latin. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|la|pigmentum|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin pigmentum, {{inh+|fr|la|pigmentum}} Inherited from Latin pigmentum, {{cog|es|pimiento}} Spanish pimiento, {{doublet|fr|pigment}} Doublet of pigment Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} piment m (plural piments)
  1. chili, chili pepper Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-piment-fr-noun-hmBLkAJ6
  2. (figuratively) spice (vigour) Tags: figuratively, masculine
    Sense id: en-piment-fr-noun-3~N5Sa6O Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: piment de Cayenne, piment d'Espelette, piment enragé, pimenter

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
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    ],
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    {
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      ]
    }
  ],
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        ],
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          "chili pepper"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    },
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          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
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        "(figuratively) spice (vigour)"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Latin",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "word": "piment d'Espelette"
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      "word": "piment enragé"
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      "word": "pimenter"
    }
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      "lang_code": "ko",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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