peseta
noun/pəˈseɪtə/
/pəˈseɪtə/
- the former unit of money in Spain (replaced in 2002 by the euro)Word OriginSpanish, diminutive of pesa ‘weight’, from Latin pensa ‘things weighed’, from the verb pendere ‘weigh’.
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