peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛso/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ, (Philippines) -ɛso

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.
   • 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts.

• adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar

• opes, pose, ESOP, epos, EOPs, poës, Poes, poes, OPEs, posé, Epos, POEs, EPOs, peos, PEOs, sope

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.zu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.zo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.zo]

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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

peso n

1. peso (any of multiple currencies)

• “peso”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “peso”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “peso”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

peso

1. (mexican)

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
• Hyphenation^(key): pe‧so

peso

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

• “peso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• pose

peso m (plural pesos)

1. peso

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

From Old Galician-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

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of 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

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 ponẽ ſobre mill peſos de pez faz los feruir por ſu p̃p̃dat biẽ 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 q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e 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 Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).

• pêso (pre-reform spelling)

• (Porto) IPA^(key): /ˈp(j)e.zu/

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• Rhymes: -ezu
• 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)
   • 2008, Jorge Araújo, Pedro Sousa Pereira, Cinco balas contra a América, Editora 34, →ISBN, pages 29–30:

     — É claro que não... é claro que não — o aspirante a guerrilheiro baixou a bola da conversa. — Pensei que fosse um lapso, apenas queria chamar a atenção do camarada comandante — acrescentou com palavras vergadas ao peso da autoridade.

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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)

• (heaviness): pesadez (less common)

• (antonym(s) of “heaviness”): leveza

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

• Hyphenation: pe‧so

peso m (plural pesos)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɛzu
• Hyphenation: pe‧so

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

peso m (plural peso)

1. peso

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/ [ˈpe.so]

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• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: pe‧so

Inherited 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)
   • 2025 June 3, EFE, “Autoridades mexicanas capturan a tres implicados en homicidio de integrantes de grupo musical”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Según fuentes oficiales y medios locales los tres detenidos son Santos ‘N’ alias ‘M-47’ o ‘Jimmy’, Raúl ‘N’ y Jesús Alejandro ‘N’ a quienes les aseguraron dos armas largas, tres armas cortas, 400 cartuchos, tres kilos de cocaína, cerca de cuatro kilos de metanfetamina, 14 dosis de marihuana, 800.000 pesos (unos US$ 41.000) y 12 vehículos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. weight (importance or influence)
6. weight, burden, load, brunt (pressure)
7. scales, scale (device used to measure weight)

   Synonyms: báscula, balanza

• → Amis: payso
• → Bikol Central: piso
• → English: peso
• → Basque: pisu
• → Cebuano: piso
• → Tagalog: piso
• → Navajo: béeso (“money”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

• “peso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpeso/ [ˈpɛː.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: pe‧so

peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. alternative form of piso