pepperoni

Borrowed from Italian peperone (“bell pepper”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/

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pepperoni (countable and uncountable, plural pepperonis or pepperoni)

1. A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
2. Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.

   Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.

• (sausage): salami, sausage
• (pizza): pizza

• → Finnish: pepperoni
• → French: pepperoni
• → Icelandic: pepperóní
• → Polish: pepperoni

English pepperoni, from Italian peperone (“bell pepper”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpepːeroni/, [ˈpe̞pːe̞ˌro̞ni]
• Rhymes: -oni
• Syllabification^(key): pep‧pe‧ro‧ni

pepperoni

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)
3. A type of longish, relatively mild, pickled, yellowish green chili, often served as condiment to doner kebab.

English pepperoni

pepperoni m (plural pepperonis)

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)

• (sausage): salami, saucisse
• (pizza): pizza

Unadapted borrowing from English pepperoni, from Italian peperone, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali). Doublet of pieprz (“pepper”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.pɛˈrɔ.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -ɔɲi
• Syllabification: pe‧ppe‧ro‧ni

pepperoni n (indeclinable)

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)
3. peperoncino

• pepperoni in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pepperoni in Polish dictionaries at PWN