Etymology

peso

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Today it means: A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar. Full definition →

Spanish peso ← Old Spanish peso ← Vulgar Latin *pēsum
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)pend-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)péndeti
  3. Proto-Italic*pendō
  4. Latinpendō
  5. Latinpēnsum
  6. Vulgar Latin*pēsum
  7. Old Spanishpeso
  8. Spanishpeso
  9. English todaypeso

Borrowed from Spanish peso.

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