peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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

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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.

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

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative form of pesar

• 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

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

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

1. (numismatics) peso

peso

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

• pose

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.

• Rhymes: -ezo

peso m (plural pesi)

1. weight

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

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesare

• 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): [ˈpe.so]

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.

• pesadumbre f

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

• Spanish: peso

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

• pêso (obsolete, noun only)

Noun:

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zu/

Verb:

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.zu/

• 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. (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)

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

• (heaviness): pesadez (less common)

• (heaviness): leveza

• pesinho, pesozinho (diminutives)
• pesão (augmentative)

• pesado
• pesagem
• pesar

peso

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

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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

peso m (plural pesos)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/

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

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)

• pesa
• pesar
• pienso

• → Basque: pisu

See the etymology of the main entry.

peso

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

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