# peso
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
* (Philippines) IPA: /ˈpɛso/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ, (Philippines) -ɛso

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

* adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar

#### Derived terms

* peso ley
* South Pacific peso

#### Related terms

* avoirdupois
* pansy
* pensive
* poise

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈpɛ.zu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈpə.zo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpe.zo]

### Verb

peso
* first-person singular present indicative of pesar

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛso]
* Rhymes: -ɛso
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

### Noun

peso n
* peso (any of multiple currencies)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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

## Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

### Noun

peso
* (mexican) peso

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Spanish peso.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈpeso]
* Rhymes: -eso
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

### Noun

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

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeso/, [ˈpe̞s̠o̞]
* Rhymes: -eso
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

### Noun

peso
* peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of peso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pesoni
pesoni
accusative
nom.
pesoni
pesoni
gen.
pesoni
genitive
pesoni
pesojeni
partitive
pesoani
pesojani
inessive
pesossani
pesoissani
elative
pesostani
pesoistani
illative
pesooni
pesoihini
adessive
pesollani
pesoillani
ablative
pesoltani
pesoiltani
allative
pesolleni
pesoilleni
essive
pesonani
pesoinani
translative
pesokseni
pesoikseni
abessive
pesottani
pesoittani
instructive
comitative
—pesoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pesosi
pesosi
accusative
nom.
pesosi
pesosi
gen.
pesosi
genitive
pesosi
pesojesi
partitive
pesoasi
pesojasi
inessive
pesossasi
pesoissasi
elative
pesostasi
pesoistasi
illative
pesoosi
pesoihisi
adessive
pesollasi
pesoillasi
ablative
pesoltasi
pesoiltasi
allative
pesollesi
pesoillesi
essive
pesonasi
pesoinasi
translative
pesoksesi
pesoiksesi
abessive
pesottasi
pesoittasi
instructive
comitative
—pesoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pesomme
pesomme
accusative
nom.
pesomme
pesomme
gen.
pesomme
genitive
pesomme
pesojemme
partitive
pesoamme
pesojamme
inessive
pesossamme
pesoissamme
elative
pesostamme
pesoistamme
illative
pesoomme
pesoihimme
adessive
pesollamme
pesoillamme
ablative
pesoltamme
pesoiltamme
allative
pesollemme
pesoillemme
essive
pesonamme
pesoinamme
translative
pesoksemme
pesoiksemme
abessive
pesottamme
pesoittamme
instructive
comitative
—pesoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pesonne
pesonne
accusative
nom.
pesonne
pesonne
gen.
pesonne
genitive
pesonne
pesojenne
partitive
pesoanne
pesojanne
inessive
pesossanne
pesoissanne
elative
pesostanne
pesoistanne
illative
pesoonne
pesoihinne
adessive
pesollanne
pesoillanne
ablative
pesoltanne
pesoiltanne
allative
pesollenne
pesoillenne
essive
pesonanne
pesoinanne
translative
pesoksenne
pesoiksenne
abessive
pesottanne
pesoittanne
instructive
comitative
—pesoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pesonsa
pesonsa
accusative
nom.
pesonsa
pesonsa
gen.
pesonsa
genitive
pesonsa
pesojensa
partitive
pesoaan pesoansa
pesojaan pesojansa
inessive
pesossaan pesossansa
pesoissaan pesoissansa
elative
pesostaan pesostansa
pesoistaan pesoistansa
illative
pesoonsa
pesoihinsa
adessive
pesollaan pesollansa
pesoillaan pesoillansa
ablative
pesoltaan pesoltansa
pesoiltaan pesoiltansa
allative
pesolleen pesollensa
pesoilleen pesoillensa
essive
pesonaan pesonansa
pesoinaan pesoinansa
translative
pesokseen pesoksensa
pesoikseen pesoiksensa
abessive
pesottaan pesottansa
pesoittaan pesoittansa
instructive
comitative
—pesoineen pesoinensa :

### Further reading

* “peso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* pose

## French
### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* peso

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* weight
* peso (unit of currency)

##### Derived terms

* peso molecular
* pesos e contrapesos
* pesos e medidas

##### Related terms

* pesar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

peso
* first-person singular present indicative of pesar

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
* Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
* Hyphenation: pé‧so

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesi)
* weight

##### Related terms

* pesalettere
* pesante
* pesare
* pesata
* pesiera
* pesista
* pesistica

### Etymology 2

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -o.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
* Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
* Hyphenation: pé‧so

#### Adjective

peso (feminine pesa, masculine plural pesi, feminine plural pese)
* (informal, Tuscan) heavy
* (informal, Tuscan, figurative) oppressive

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
* Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
* Hyphenation: pé‧so

#### Verb

peso
* first-person singular present indicative of pesare

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛ.zo/
* Rhymes: -ɛzo
* Hyphenation: pè‧so

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* peso

### References

* 1 2 3 4 peso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* epos, pose

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

### Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoene)
* a peso (currency unit of several Latin American countries, as well as the Philippines)

### References

* “peso” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.

### Noun

peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)
* a peso (currency unit, as above)

### References

* “peso” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpezo/

### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* 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.

#### Synonyms

* pesadumbre f

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* Spanish: peso

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛ.sɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛsɔ
* Syllabification: pe‧so

### Noun

peso n (indeclinable)
* peso (designation for specific currency)

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* pêso (pre-reform)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.zu/
* (Porto) IPA: /ˈp(j)e.zu/
* Rhymes: -ezu
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
* heaviness (the condition of being heavy)
* weight (object used for its heaviness)
** (weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)
** (athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
* (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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (figurative) emotional pressure
* (sports) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
* (mathematics) weight (value that multiplies a variable)
* (typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)

##### Synonyms

* (heaviness): pesadez (less common)

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “heaviness”): leveza

##### Derived terms

* a peso de ouro
* de peso
* dois pesos e duas medidas
* em peso
* pesão (augmentative)
* pesinho (diminutive)
* peso aderente
* peso atómico
* peso bruto
* peso específico
* peso leve
* peso líquido
* peso médio
* peso meio-médio
* peso meio-pesado
* peso molecular
* peso morto
* peso pesado
* pesozinho (diminutive)
* prematuro de peso
* valer o seu peso em ouro

##### Related terms

* pesado
* pesagem
* pesar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zu/, /ˈpe.su/, /ˈpe.so/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zu/, /ˈpe.su/, /ˈpe.so/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, /ˈpe.so/
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛ.zu/
* Rhymes: -ɛzu
* Hyphenation: pe‧so

#### Verb

peso
* first-person singular present indicative of pesar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

### Noun

peso m (plural peso)
* peso

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeso/ [ˈpe.so]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -eso
* Syllabification: pe‧so

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

peso m (plural pesos)
* (physics) weight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)
* weight (a block of metal used in a balance)
* weight class
* peso (unit of currency)
* weight (importance or influence)
* weight, burden, load, brunt (pressure)
* scales, scale (device used to measure weight)
    Synonyms: báscula, balanza

##### Hyponyms

* peso atómico
* peso bruto
* peso específico
* peso gallo (“bantamweight”)
* peso ligero (“lightweight”)
* peso medio (“middleweight”)
* peso molecular
* peso mosca (“flyweight”)
* peso muerto
* peso neto
* peso pesado
* peso pluma (“featherweight”)
* peso semipesado (“cruiserweight”)
* peso wélter (“welterweight”)

##### Derived terms

* aumentar de peso (“to gain weight”)
* aumento de peso (“weight gain”)
* caer por su propio peso (“to be self-evident, to be obvious”)
* con bajo peso (“underweight”) (adj.)
* de peso
* de su peso
* en peso
* ganar peso
* lanzamiento de peso
* perder peso
* peso del cuerpo
* quitarse un peso de encima (“to take a load off”)
* razón de peso (“compelling reason, strong reason”)
* sin peso (“weightless”)
* todo cae por su propio peso (“what goes around comes around”)
* valer su peso en oro (“to be worth its weight in gold”)

##### Related terms

* pensar
* pesa
* pesar
* pienso

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

peso
* first-person singular present indicative of pesar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)
* Alternative form of piso