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piper

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See also: Piper

English

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piper (playing bagpipes)

Etymology 1

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From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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piper (plural pipers)

  1. A musician who plays a pipe.
  2. A bagpiper.
    • 2020 May 20, “Railway remembers VE Day with a series of tributes”, in Rail, page 15:
      At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.
  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 (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
  6. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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piper

  1. Archaic form of pepper.

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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piper m

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

Derived terms

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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piper

  1. to pipe (a bagpipe)

Conjugation

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Latin

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piper (pepper)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, pepper), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, long pepper), itself of unknown origin (perhaps a Dravidian or other substrate language of the Indian subcontinent). The declension was changed to a rhotic-stem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

  1. pepper
    • compiled by 5th century CE, Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.12:
      ...Et, cum siccaverint, super aspargis piper tritum et inferes. Ad mensam nemo agnoscet quid manducet.
      ...And, when they get dry, sprinkle mashed pepper on them, and serve. At the table, no one will know what they're eating.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative piper pipera
genitive piperis piperum
dative piperī piperibus
accusative piper pipera
ablative pipere piperibus
vocative piper pipera

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English pīpere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er; compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pfīfari.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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piper (plural pipers)

  1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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piper

  1. Alternative form of peper

Norman

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Verb

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piper

  1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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piper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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piper f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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piper m

  1. Alternative form of pipor

Romanian

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piper

Etymology

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Borrowed from Bulgarian пипе́р (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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piper m (plural piperi)

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

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative piper piperul piperi piperii
genitive-dative piper piperului piperi piperilor
vocative piperule piperilor

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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piper

  1. present indicative of pipa

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar.

Noun

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piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

  1. pepper (spice)

Further reading

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  • piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011