pimento

来自西班牙语pimiento,红椒，来自拉丁语pigmentum,颜料，蔬菜汁，词源同pigment,picture.因这种辣椒用于给食物或饮料着色而得名。

pimento

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pimento (n.)

1680s, pimiento (modern form from 1718), from Spanish pimiento "green or red pepper," also pimienta "black pepper," from Late Latin pigmenta, plural of pigmentum "vegetable juice," from Latin pigmentum "pigment" (see pigment (n.)). So called because it added a dash of color to food or drink.

[I]n med.L. spiced drink, hence spice, pepper (generally), Sp. pimiento, Fr. piment are applied to Cayenne or Guinea pepper, capsicum; in Eng. the name has passed to allspice or Jamaica pepper. [OED]

The piece of red sweet pepper stuffed in a pitted olive so called from 1918, earlier pimiento (1901), from Spanish. French piment is from Spanish.

1. Pimento is called Allspicebecause its flavor suggests a blend of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.

西班牙甘椒被称作多香果是因为它常被建议与丁香,肉豆蔻, 肉桂混合.