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pe⋅so

  [pey-soh; Sp. pe-saw]
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–noun, plural -sos  [-sohz; Sp. -saws] .
1. a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
2. a coin and monetary unit of Uruguay, equal to 100 centesimos.
3. a former monetary unit of Argentina, equal to 100 centavos: replaced by the austral in 1985.
4. a former silver coin of Spain and Spanish America, equal to eight reals; dollar; piece of eight; piaster.
Origin:
< Sp: lit., weight < L pēnsum something weighed, n. use of neut. of pēnsus, ptp. of pendere to weigh
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pe·so   (pā'sō)   
n.   pl. pe·sos
Abbr. p. See Table at currency.

[Spanish, from Latin pēnsum, something weighed, from neuter past participle of pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
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peso 
"Spanish coin," 1555, from Sp., lit. "a weight," from L. pensum, properly pp. of pendere "to hang, to cause to hang" (see pendant). Formerly either of silver (peso de plata) or gold (peso de oro).
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peso

the monetary unit of several Latin American countries and the Philippines; it is divided into 100 centavos. The peso was introduced into Spain by the monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who reformed the Spanish coinage system in 1497; it did not come into common use, though, until the time of Charles I (the emperor Charles V)

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