peso
peso - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
- (PH) IPA: /ˈpɛsoʊ/, [ˈpɛso]
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
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Translations
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peso - Catalan
Verb
peso
- first-person singular present indicative form of pesar
peso - Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈpɛso]
- Hyphenation: pe‧so
Noun
peso n
- peso (any of multiple currencies)
Declension
peso - Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Noun
peso
- (mexican) peso
peso - Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈpeso]
- Hyphenation: pe‧so
Noun
peso (accusative singular peson, plural pesoj, accusative plural pesojn)
peso - Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpeso/, [ˈpe̞s̠o̞]
- Syllabification: pe‧so
Noun
peso
- peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)
Declension
Inflection of peso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | peso | pesot | ||
genitive | peson | pesojen | ||
partitive | pesoa | pesoja | ||
illative | pesoon | pesoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | peso | pesot | ||
accusative | nom. | peso | pesot | |
gen. | peson | |||
genitive | peson | pesojen | ||
partitive | pesoa | pesoja | ||
inessive | pesossa | pesoissa | ||
elative | pesosta | pesoista | ||
illative | pesoon | pesoihin | ||
adessive | pesolla | pesoilla | ||
ablative | pesolta | pesoilta | ||
allative | pesolle | pesoille | ||
essive | pesona | pesoina | ||
translative | pesoksi | pesoiksi | ||
instructive | — | pesoin | ||
abessive | pesotta | pesoitta | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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peso - French
Noun
peso m (plural pesos)
peso - Galician
Noun
peso m (plural pesos)
Derived terms
Related terms
peso - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
- Hyphenation: pé‧so
Noun
peso m (plural pesi)
Related terms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
- Hyphenation: pé‧so
Adjective
peso (feminine pesa, masculine plural pesi, feminine plural pese)
- (informal, Tuscan) heavy
- (informal, Tuscan, figurative) oppressive
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈpe.so/
- Hyphenation: pé‧so
Verb
peso
- first-person singular present indicative of pesare
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛ.zo/
- Hyphenation: pè‧so
Noun
peso m (plural pesos)
Anagrams
peso - Norwegian Bokmål
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)
peso - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)
- a peso (currency unit, as above)
peso - Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpezo/
Noun
peso m (plural pesos)
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- Spanish: peso
peso - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛ.sɔ/
- Syllabification: pe‧so
Noun
peso n (indeclinable)
- peso (designation for specific currency)
peso - Portuguese
Alternative forms
- pêso (superseded)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpe.zu/
- 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)
- (figurative) weight (importance or influence)
- (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)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see peso.
Synonyms
- (heaviness): pesadez (less common)
Antonyms
- (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
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛ.zu/
- Hyphenation: pe‧so
Verb
peso
- first-person singular present indicative of pesar
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zu/, /ˈpe.su/, /ˈpe.so/
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zu/, /ˈpe.su/, /ˈpe.so/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.zo/, /ˈpe.so/
Noun
peso m (plural pesos)
- peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)
peso - Romanian
Noun
peso m (plural peso)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) peso | pesoul | (niște) peso | pesoi |
genitive/dative | (unui) peso | pesoului | (unor) peso | pesolor |
vocative | pesoule | pesolor |
peso - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpeso/ [ˈpe.so]
- Syllabification: pe‧so
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)
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 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
- 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
Descendants
Verb
peso
- first-person singular present indicative of pesar
peso - Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pe‧so
- IPA: /ˈpeso/, [ˈpɛ.so]
Noun
peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)
- Alternative form of piso