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Is this actually accurate?
I know green capsicums are generally unripe but my understanding was that the different varieties start as green, then will ripen to one of red, yellow, or orange depending on variety. Not go through them all like a traffic light.
That's why you get mixed green/red etc, but you don't see ones that are four different colours as ot ripens unevenly.
For some varieties yes, such as the bell pepper. You can get green, yellow, orange and red bell peppers, which are all just different maturity levels.
Black peppers (old world) are very different from new world capsicum plants. They are all called peppers because they are hot, I guess. Sort of like maze being called corn, which is just Latin for grain. Shows a decided lack of imagination.
There was a meme recently about Columbus naming everything they found "pepper". I suspect it's a result of language at the time.
Since English has borrowed heavily over the centuries, we now have multiple words for these different things as words for the same thing come in from other languages.
German seems to build compound words for things.
Well, not in this case:
Black pepper = Pfeffer
Bell pepper = Paprika
Chili pepper = Chili (although you do rarely also see the compound word "Chilischoten")