piper

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er.

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

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.

• (bagpiper): bagpiper
• (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick

Latin

piper

1. Archaic form of pepper.

• PIREP

• piperu, chiper

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

piper m

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

• mpipiredz

• pipercã
• sari

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.per/, [ˈpɪpɛr]

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

1. pepper

Third declension neuter.

• piperātārius
• piperātōrium
• piperātum
• piperātus
• piperita

• piperītis

• 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

From Old English pipor.

piper

1. Alternative form of peper

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

• pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːpər(ə)/

piper (plural pipers)

1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.

• English: piper
• Scots: piper

• “pīper(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.

piper

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

piper m or f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

piper f

1. indefinite plural of pipe

piper m

1. Alternative form of pipor

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

piper m

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

• sare

piper

1. present tense of pipa.

piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

1. pepper (spice)

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