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peso.

weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpe.zu/Brazil/ˈpe.zu/Portugal/ˈp(j)e.zu/

  1. weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)

    masculine

  2. heaviness (the condition of being heavy)

    masculine

  3. weight (object used for its heaviness) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)

    masculine

  4. weight (object used for its heaviness) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)

    masculine

  5. weight (importance or influence)

    figuratively · masculine

  6. emotional pressure

    figuratively · masculine

  7. weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)

    masculine

  8. weight (value that multiplies a variable)

    masculine

  9. weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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

noun/ˈpe.zu/Brazil/ˈpe.su/Brazil/ˈpe.so/Brazil/ˈpe.zu/Portugal

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

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti Proto-Italic *pendō Latin pendō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-sos Latin -sus Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin -sum Latin pēnsum Vulgar Latin *pēsum Old Spanish peso Spanish pesobor. Portuguese peso Borrowed from Spanish peso.

verb/ˈpɛ.zu/Brazil/ˈpɛ.zu/Portugal

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pesar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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