peso
noun/ˈpeɪsəʊ/
/ˈpeɪsəʊ/
(plural pesos)
- the unit of money in many Latin American countries and the PhilippinesWord OriginSpanish, literally ‘weight’, from Latin pensum ‘something weighed’, from the verb pendere ‘weigh’.
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