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。
[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.
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