piper

See also: Piper

English

piper (playing bagpipes)

Etymology 1

pipe +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪpə(r)

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

  1. A musician who plays a pipe.
  2. A bagpiper.
  3. A baby pigeon.
  4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
  5. A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
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Etymology 2

Latin

Noun

piper

  1. Archaic form of pepper.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).

Noun

piper m

  1. pepper (plant)
  2. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

  • mpipiredz

See also

Latin

piper (pepper)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”).

Pronunciation

Noun

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

  1. pepper

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative piper pipera
genitive piperis piperum
dative piperī piperibus
accusative piper pipera
ablative pipere piperibus
vocative piper pipera

Derived terms

  • piperītis

Descendants

References

  • piper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • piper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • piper in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piper in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norman

Verb

piper

  1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piper m, f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

piper f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Old English

Noun

piper m

  1. Alternative form of pipor

Romanian

piper

Etymology

From Slavic piperĭ, Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).

Noun

piper m

  1. pepper (plant)
  2. pepper (spice)

See also

Swedish

Verb

piper

  1. present tense of pipa.

West Frisian

Noun

piper c

  1. pepper (spice)
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