peso

See also: Peso, pesó, pesò, and pêso

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
  • (PH) IPA(key): /ˈpɛsoʊ/, [ˈpɛso]
  • (file)

Noun

peso (plural pesos)

  1. (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
  2. (historical) A former unit of currency in Argentina, worth 1/100 austral.
  3. The currency of various countries, including but not limited to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines.

Translations

Anagrams


Catalan

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of pesar

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛso]
  • Rhymes: -ɛso
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso n

  1. peso (any of multiple currencies)

Declension

Further reading

  • peso in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • peso in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso

Noun

peso

  1. (mexican) peso

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeso/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧so
  • Rhymes: -eso
  • (file)

Noun

peso (accusative singular peson, plural pesoj, accusative plural pesojn)

  1. (numismatics) peso

Finnish

Noun

peso

  1. peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)

Declension

Inflection of peso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative peso pesot
genitive peson pesojen
partitive pesoa pesoja
illative pesoon pesoihin
singular plural
nominative peso pesot
accusative nom. peso pesot
gen. peson
genitive peson pesojen
partitive pesoa pesoja
inessive pesossa pesoissa
elative pesosta pesoista
illative pesoon pesoihin
adessive pesolla pesoilla
ablative pesolta pesoilta
allative pesolle pesoille
essive pesona pesoina
translative pesoksi pesoiksi
instructive pesoin
abessive pesotta pesoitta
comitative pesoineen

Anagrams


Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight
  2. peso (unit of currency)

Derived terms


Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ezo

Noun

peso m (plural pesi)

  1. weight

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesare

Anagrams


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoene)

  1. a peso (currency unit of several Latin American countries, as well as the Philippines)

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)

  1. a peso (currency unit, as above)

References


Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (I weigh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpe.so]

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight
    • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, 53r.
      Et a tal uertud que ſi la poné ſobre mill peſos de pez faz los feruir por ſu ṕṕdat bié como si estudieſſen a fuego.
      And its virtue it such that if it is put over a thousand weights of pitch it lights them due to its property, as if they were on fire.
    • Idem, f. 79r.
      La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.
      The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.

Synonyms

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (I weigh).

Alternative forms

  • pêso (obsolete, noun only)

Pronunciation

Noun:

Verb:

  • Hyphenation: pe‧so

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
  2. heaviness (the condition of being heavy)
  3. weight (object used for its heaviness)
    1. (weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)
    2. (athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
  4. (figuratively) weight (importance or influence)
  5. (figuratively) emotional pressure
  6. (sports) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
  7. (mathematics) weight (value that multiplies a variable)
  8. (typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)
Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:peso.

Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
  • pesinho, pesozinho (diminutives)
  • pesão (augmentative)

Verb

peso

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of pesar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zu/, /ˈpe.su/, /ˈpe.so/

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeso/

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (I weigh). Doublet of the semi-learned pienso.

Noun

peso m (plural pesos)

  1. weight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)
  2. weight (a block of metal used in a balance)
  3. weight class
  4. peso (unit of currency)
  5. weight (importance or influence)
  6. weight (pressure; burden)
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

peso

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of pesar.

Further reading

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