peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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

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• Rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ, (PH) -ɛsoʊ

peso (plural pesos)

1. (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
2. The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.

• adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar

• ESOP, PEOs, epos, opes, peos, poes, pose, posé, sope

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative form of pesar

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

peso n

1. peso (any of multiple currencies)

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

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

peso

1. (mexican) peso

From Spanish peso.

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

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

1. (numismatics) peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/, [ˈpe̞s̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧so

peso

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

• pose

peso m (plural pesos)

1. peso

• “peso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

peso m (plural pesos)

1. weight
2. peso (unit of currency)

• peso molecular
• pesos e contrapesos
• pesos e medidas

• pesar

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/[1]
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
• Hyphenation: pé‧so

peso m (plural pesi)

1. weight

• pesalettere
• pesante
• pesare
• pesata
• pesiera
• pesista
• pesistica

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/[1]
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
• Hyphenation: pé‧so

peso (feminine pesa, masculine plural pesi, feminine plural pese)

1. (informal, Tuscan) heavy
2. (informal, Tuscan, figurative) oppressive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/[1]
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
• Hyphenation: pé‧so

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesare

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.zo/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛzo
• Hyphenation: pè‧so

peso m (plural pesos)

1. peso

• epos, pose

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

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)

• “peso” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

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

1. a peso (currency unit, as above)

• “peso” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpezo/

peso m (plural pesos)

1. weight
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, page 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.

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, page 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.

• pesadumbre f

• pesado (“heavy”)
• pesar (“to weigh”)

• Spanish: peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso, from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.sɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɔ
• Syllabification: pe‧so

peso n (indeclinable)

1. peso (designation for specific currency)

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

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

• pêso (superseded)

• Hyphenation: pe‧so

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. (figurative) weight (importance or influence)
5. (figurative) 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)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:peso.

• (heaviness): pesadez (less common)

• (heaviness): leveza

• pesado
• pesagem
• pesar

• Hyphenation: pe‧so

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

peso m (plural pesos)

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

From Spanish peso.

peso m (plural peso)

1. peso

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/ [ˈpe.so]

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• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: pe‧so

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

peso m (plural pesos)

1. (physics) 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, burden, load, brunt (pressure)
7. scales, scale (device used to measure weight)

   Synonyms: báscula, balanza

• pesa
• pesar
• pienso
• pensar

• → Bikol Central: piso
• → English: peso
• → Basque: pisu
• → Cebuano: piso
• → Tagalog: piso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

• “peso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Hyphenation: pe‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/, [ˈpe.so]

peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. Alternative form of piso