Noun: peso
Sample Sentences
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The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts. [2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:]
Nouns inflected like peso
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti
4. Proto-Italic *pendō
5. Latin pendō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
7. Proto-Italic *-sos
8. Latin -sus
9. Proto-Indo-European *-om
10. Proto-Italic *-om
11. Latin -um
12. Latin -sum
13. Latin pēnsum
14. Vulgar Latin *pēsum
15. Old Spanish peso
16. Spanish pesobor.
17. English peso
18. Borrowed from Spanish peso.
Verbs referencing "peso"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
peso, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
peso.