peppercorn

Etymology
From, , , from , corresponding to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The seeds of the plant . Commonly used as a spice, usually but not always ground or crushed.
 * 2) A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
 * 3)  A nominal consideration used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.
 * 1)  A nominal consideration used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.

Usage notes
The use of a peppercorn as consideration in legal contracts is commonly literal (even in the modern day)—frequently as a —but it is invariably accompanied by a proviso that it need only be physically provided if actually demanded.

Derived terms

 * pink peppercorn
 * peppercorn rent

Translations

 * Assamese: গোল মৰিচ
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, pippurinmarja
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: πιπερόκοκκος
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: grano di pepe
 * Latin: grānum piperis
 * Lü: ᦘᦲᧅᦓᦾᧉ
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: boabă de piper
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: paminta
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: grawn pupur


 * Finnish: