pepo

See also: pepò and Pepo

English

WOTD – 30 March 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Compare pumpkin.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pəʊ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.poʊ/
Hyphenation: pe‧po
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Noun

pepo (plural pepos)

A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
A plant producing such a fruit.
- 1945, George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest, Issue 5 edition, page 25:
  The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.

Synonyms

(fruit): gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash, cucumber
(plant): cucurbit

Translations

kind of fruit

Finnish: kurkku (fi), meloni (fi), kurpitsa (fi) (no single word covering all)
French: pépon (fr) m, péponide (fr) f
Italian: peponide (it) m
Portuguese: pepónio (pt) m
Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)
Spanish: pepónide (es) m
Tagalog: daykutbunga
Welsh: pepo m

plant producing such a fruit

Finnish: kurkkukasvi (fi)
Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)

Anagrams

EPPO, Pope, peop., pope

Esperanto

Noun

pepo (accusative singular pepon, plural pepoj, accusative plural pepojn)

a chirp, peep, twitter
(Internet) a tweet

Related terms

pepi (“to chirp”)

Guaraní

Noun

pepo

wing

Italian

Verb

pepo

first-person singular present indicative of pepare

Kaingang

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɪˈpo/

Noun

pepo

toad

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέσσω (péssō, “ripen”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.poː/, [ˈpɛpoː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.po/, [ˈpɛːpo]

Noun

pepō m (genitive peponis); third declension

pumpkin, large melon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pepō	peponēs
Genitive	peponis	peponum
Dative	peponī	peponibus
Accusative	peponem	peponēs
Ablative	pepone	peponibus
Vocative	pepō	peponēs

Related terms

mēlopepō

Descendants

→ Albanian: pjepër, pjep
Aromanian: peapini, peapine, piponj
→ English: pepo
→ French: péponide
Middle French: pompon
- → Dutch: pompoen
  - Afrikaans: pampoen
  - Berbice Creole Dutch: pampuna
  - Negerhollands: pampuen, pampon
    - → Virgin Islands Creole: pum pum (dated)
  - Skepi Creole Dutch: pampun
  - → Papiamentu: pampuna, pampoena
  - → Sranan Tongo: pampun
    - → Saramaccan: pampú
  - → West Frisian: pompoen
- → English: pompion, pumpkin
  - → Welsh: pwmpen
Italian: popone
Portuguese: pepino
Romanian: pepene
Spanish: pepino, pepón
→ Translingual: Pepo
→⇒ Scottish Gaelic: peapag

References

“pepo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pepo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Swahili

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

pepo (n class, plural pepo) or pepo (ma class, plural mapepo)

spirit, demon

Noun

pepo

plural of upepo