Translations:Chili pepper/71/en: Difference between revisions
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The English word is from Classical Nahuatl chīlli with the same meaning. The name of the plant is unrelated to that of the country Chile. While pepper originally meant the genus Piper, not Capsicum, the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster record both usages.