Meanings
plural pesetas
- The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos.
The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.
1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC - The Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea
- The Sahrawi peseta, de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounformerly the basic unit of money in Spain; equal to 100 centimos
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Spanishpeseta
- Englishpeseta
From Spanish peseta, from peso (“coin or weight”).
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque pezeta
- pezetacurrency
Bulgarian песе́та
- песе́та (peséta)currency
Catalan pesseta
- pessetacurrency
Chinese Mandarin 比塞塔
- 比塞塔 (bǐsàitǎ)currency
Finnish peseta
- pesetacurrency
French peseta
- pesetacurrency
German Peseta
- Pesetacurrency
Greek πεσέτα
- πεσέτα (peséta)currency
Icelandic peseti
- peseticurrency
Italian peseta
- pesetacurrency
Japanese ペセタ
- ペセタ (peseta)currency
Malay peseta
- pesetacurrency
Portuguese peseta
- pesetacurrency
Romanian pesetă
- pesetăcurrency
Russian песе́та
- песе́та (peséta)currency
Spanish peseta
- pesetacurrency
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
peseta. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peseta
“peseta.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peseta. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “peseta,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peseta.
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