peso – Wiktionary

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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peso (plural pesos)

1. (historic) A former unit of foreign money in Spain and Spain’s colonies, price eight reales; the Spanish greenback.
2. The foreign money of varied nations, together with however not restricted to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines.

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Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

peso

1. first-person singular current indicative type of pesar

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peso n

1. peso (any of a number of currencies)

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Japanese Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish peso

Noun[edit]

peso

1. (mexican) peso

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Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

1. (numismatics) peso

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Finnish[edit]

Noun[edit]

peso

1. peso (foreign money; coin or observe of 1 peso)

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

peso m (plural pesos)

1. weight
2. peso (unit of foreign money)

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

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peso m (plural pesi)

1. weight

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Verb[edit]

peso

1. first-person singular current indicative of pesare

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin pensum, through English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun[edit]

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

1. a peso (foreign money unit of a number of Latin American nations, in addition to the Philippines)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin pensum, through English peso and Spanish peso.

Noun[edit]

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

1. a peso (foreign money unit, as above)

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Previous Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

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 advantage it such that whether it is put over a thousand weights of pitch it lights them as a consequence of its property, as in the event that they have been on fireplace.

   • 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 have been to drink of it the weight of 1 drachma, it purges black bile quickly and effectively.

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

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• pêso (out of date, noun solely)

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Noun[edit]

peso m (plural pesos)

1. weight (drive on an object as a result of gravitational attraction)
2. heaviness (the situation of being heavy)
3. weight (object used for its heaviness)
   1. (weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for energy coaching)
   2. (athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
4. (figurative) weight (significance or affect)
5. (figurative) emotional stress
6. (sports activities) weight class (subdivision of a contest primarily based on the rivals’ weight)
7. (arithmetic) weight (worth that multiplies a variable)
8. (typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a personality’s strokes)

Quotations[edit]

For quotations utilizing this time period, see Citations:peso.

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Verb[edit]

peso

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

peso m (plural pesos)

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

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Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

peso m (plural pesos)

1. weight (the drive on an object as a consequence of gravitational attraction)
2. weight (a block of metallic utilized in a stability)
3. weight class
4. peso (unit of foreign money)
5. weight (significance or affect)
6. weight, burden, load, brunt (stress)

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Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the primary entry.

Verb[edit]

peso

1. First-person singular (yo) current indicative type of pesar.

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