piso

piso (plural pisos)

1. Alternative form of peso (“currency of Philippines”).

• peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

píso (plural pisos, Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (currency)

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

• Hyphenation: pi‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.s̪o]

piso

1. peso (Philippines)
2. a coin or note worth one peso

Inherited from Spanish piso (“floor”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.so]
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

piso

1. floor; story

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/
• Rhymes: -iso
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

piso (accusative singular pison, plural pisoj, accusative plural pisojn)

1. (informal) piss
   • [1996 June 6, PEJNO Simono, “Aperis nova versio de Legilo. C^u necesas?”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Nu eble mi inter viaj "pisoj", "fekoj", "stultigoj", "kretenigoj", "idiotigoj", "elpugitajxoj", kaj "masturbajxoj" tute akcidente pretervidis vian elegantan retorikon.

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   • 1997 September 7, Manuel M Campagna, “inaj iloj...”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Aliseksemaj viroj havas siajn "ritojn", kiam ili estas inter si -- ruktado, fartado, sakrado ktp ... kaj komuna staranta pisado (nu kiu jxetos la pison plej for antavxen).

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   • 1999 March 19, Serguey Nossov, “Kiel mi ellernis Esperanton”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Ver[ŝ]ajne, la [ĉ]efa kialo por mia esperanti[ĝ]o estas intereso por konati[ĝ]i kun homoj netipikaj, por kiuj en tiu [ĉ]i mondo ekzistas iome pli interesoj kaj celoj ol profito, adultero, "piso kaj feka[ĵ]o de postsocialisma kolektivo", per kiuj estas plena nia nuna vivo.

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   • 1999 June 7, Manuel M Campagna, “En riveroj de Jugoslavio aperis mortinta fisxo”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     S-ro Gxia ("Ji"), la iama prezidento de Baratio, la unua "netusxenda" prezidento de Baratio, iam konfesis al intervjuanto, ke li trinkas glason de sia propra piso cxiumatene, cxar gxi donas al li "elanon".

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   • 1999 September 12, Sebastian Hartwig, “The Esperanto congress in Veszprem (Hungary)/La Esperanta kongreso en Veszprem (Hungario)”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     La tempo, en kiu vi ne plu povas eligi kakon k pison estas la horo de via morto -- mensa _k_ korpa. Tamen oni kutime ne kakas au pisas publike. (Kvankam kelkfoje ja grupe...)

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   • 2005, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Armela LeQuint and Ĵak Le Puil, Vojaĝo ĝis Noktofino [Journey to the End of the Night], New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 225:

     Ĉu vi ne trovas ke la malsanuloj odoras pison?

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   • 2007, Rubén Gallego, translated by Kalle Kniivilä, Blanko sur Nigro, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 33:

     Laŭ la muroj etendiĝis la vicoj de litoj, el kiuj fluis piso.

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   • 2011, Eugène de Zilah, La Princo ĉe la Hunoj, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 295:

     La piso estas kristala.

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   • 2015, Sten Johansson, Skabio, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 169:

     Ne plu estis fantomoj tie, nur amaso da urtikoj, kiuj odoris je piso.

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   • 2015 October, Rikardo Cash, “Duonhora pluvego”, in Probal Daŝgupto, István Ertl, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Suso Moinhos, Tim Westover, editors, Beletra Almanako, 9th year, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 68:

     Tiel mia fumo ne ĝenos ŝin, kaj ŝia piso ne ĝenos min!

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   • 2020, Lode Van de Velde, Aspiroj, →ISBN, page 60:

     Poste li iras al la banĉambro por rapida duŝo kaj piso, ŝprucas senodorigilon sub la akselojn kaj surmetas la samajn vestojn kiel la antaŭa tago.

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• pisi

Back-formation from pisar (“to tread, press”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, surface

   Synonym: chan

2. storey

   Synonyms: andar, planta

3. apartment

   Synonym: apartamento

4. sole

   Synonym: sola

5. bed (of a cart)

   Synonyms: chedeiro, estrado, leito, sollo

• pisar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “piso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

From Latin piscem.

piso m (plural pisi)

1. fish

• pascà
• pascadur

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.s̬o]

From the root of pīnsō, pistus +‎ -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).

pīsō m (genitive pīsōnis); third declension

1. mortar (hollow vessel used with a pestle)
   • c. 400 CE, Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis liber 8:^[1]

     Adversus umores et subitos inpetus oculorum et epiphoras radices betae maxime nigrae ex aqua tepida lavabis et expressas sabano siccabis, deinde tundes in pisone marmoreo et sucum inde linteo intorto exprimes, tum leviter ad carbones despumatum tepefacies et naribus infundes, ita ut is cui medeberis aquam tepidam in ore contineat, et si unus oculus laborabit, diversae partis nares infundes et melle Attico continges.

     ...next you will pound them in a marble mortar...

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pīsō

1. dative/ablative singular of pīsum

• “pīso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "piso", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• piso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “piso”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piso”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

piso

1. third-person singular/plural past of pisti

From English puss.

piso

1. cat

   Synonyms: saka, ampaha

2. kitty; puss

• Hyphenation: pi‧so

From pisar (“to step”).

piso m (plural pisos)

1. storey (level of a building)

   Synonym: andar

2. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: chão

3. surface (to walk on)

   Synonyms: terreno, pavimento

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]

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• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Deverbal from pisar.

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, ground (surface of the earth)

   Synonym: suelo

2. floor, story, storey (level of a building)

   Synonyms: nivel, planta

3. (Spain) flat, apartment

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento, (colloquial in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) depa, apartamiento, (rare or dialectal) vivienda

4. deck (level on a ship or vehicle)

   Synonyms: cubierta, náutica

5. (in compounds, in the plural) decker (bus, bed)

   autobús de dos pisos ― double-decker bus

6. level, layer of a structure e.g. a cake

   Synonym: nivel

7. tier (layer of a cake)

   Synonym: nivel

   torta de tres pisos ― three-tier cake

8. (Chile) footstool

   Synonyms: banqueta, banco, banquillo, reposapiés, escabel

9. (Chile) rug, carpet

   Synonyms: tapiz, choapino, chopino

10. (Spain) sole

    Synonym: suela

11. step (action and effect of stepping on something)

    Synonym: pisada

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

• “piso”, 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

• peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”), from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpiː.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

piso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (currency)
2. one-peso coin
3. (games, colloquial) one point

• opis

Compare Italian piscio

piso m (plural pisi)

1. urine, piss

• pisar

From Old French pissier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsɔ/

piso (first-person singular present pisaf)

1. (vulgar) to piss

   Synonyms: pibo, troethi

piso m (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) piss

   Synonyms: trwnc, troeth

• fel piso mochyn (yn yr eira) (“crooked”, literally “like pig's piss (in the snow)”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piso”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Malay pisau, likely through North Moluccan Malay [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.s̪o/

piso

1. knife

   Synonym: kobi

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics