Definitions and meaning of piper
piper
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pə/
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
- Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Noun
piper (plural pipers)
- A musician who plays a pipe.
- A bagpiper.
- A baby pigeon.
- A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
Synonyms
- (bagpiper): bagpiper
- (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
piper
- Archaic form of pepper.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).
Noun
piper m
- pepper (plant)
- pepper (spice)
Derived terms
See also
French
Pronunciation
Verb
piper
- to pipe (a bagpipe)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- ne pas piper mot
- sans piper mot
References
- “piper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɪ.pɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpiː.per]
Noun
piper n (genitive piperis); third declension
- pepper
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
- piperātārius
- piperātōrium
- piperātum
- piperātus
- piperita
- piperō (“bell pepper”)
- Italian: peperone
- Emilian: puvron, pevron, pivron
- Ligurian: pevión, povrón, peverón, peveión
- Lombard: peveron, pieron, povron
- Piedmontese: povron, puvron, pevron, pouron
- → Vivaro-Alpine: povron, puvron (Valadas)
- Romagnol: pevaron, piviron, povaron
- Franco-Provençal: pêvron, povrun, peivron, póuron
- French: poivron
- Occitan: pebron (also pebròt, peberòt, cf. Catalan pebrot)
Related terms
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
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English pīpere; equivalent to pipe + -ere (suffix forming agent nouns); compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pfīfari.
Alternative forms
- pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare
Pronunciation
Noun
piper (plural pipers)
- A piper; one who plays a pipe.
Descendants
- English: piper
- Scots: piper
- Yola: peepeare, pipere
References
- “peper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2022-01-04.
Etymology 2
Noun
piper
- alternative form of peper
Norman
Verb
piper
- (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
piper m or f
- indefinite plural of pipe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- pipur, pipor (old spelling or dialectal)
- pipo (dialectal)
Noun
piper f
- indefinite plural of pipe
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
piper m
- alternative form of pipor
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Bulgarian пипе́р (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).
Pronunciation
Noun
piper m (plural piperi)
- pepper (plant)
- pepper (spice)
Declension
See also
Swedish
Pronunciation
Verb
piper
- present indicative of pipa
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar.
Noun
piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)
- pepper (spice)
Further reading
- “piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Source: wiktionary.org