"peper" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɛpər/, /ˈpipər/
Etymology: Inherited from Old English pipor, piper, from West Germanic, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Indo-Aryan. Forms with /ɛ/ probably represent unattested Old English *peopor, while the absence of open-syllable lengthening is due to influence from the Old English inflected forms pipore, pipores and the compounds peper corn, peperquerne, where it would be inhibited by trisyllabic shortening. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|pipor|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English pipor, {{inh+|enm|ang|pipor}} Inherited from Old English pipor, {{der|enm|gmw|-}} West Germanic, {{der|enm|la|piper}} Latin piper, {{der|enm|grc|πέπερι}} Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), {{der|enm|inc}} Indo-Aryan, {{m+|ang||*peopor}} Old English *peopor Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} peper, {{enm-noun|-}} peper (uncountable) Forms: pepere [alternative], pepir [alternative], pepire [alternative], pepper [alternative], pepre [alternative], pepur [alternative], pepyr [alternative], piper [alternative], pipere [alternative], pipor [alternative], pyper [alternative]
  1. pepper (a spice made from the fruit of the plant Piper nigrum) Tags: uncountable
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  2. (rare) The plant that produces the fruit required to make pepper; the pepper plant. Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-peper-enm-noun-6RXA0va7 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Plants, Seasonings Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 32 32 21 13 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 20 12 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 33 20 14 1 Disambiguation of Plants: 43 50 7 Disambiguation of Seasonings: 51 42 6
  3. (rare) A spicy or bitter concoction. Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-peper-enm-noun-praSA0Lm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: peper corn, peperquerne

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.