peso

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
2. (masculine) heaviness (the condition of being heavy)
3. (masculine) weight (object used for its heaviness)
4. (masculine) weight (object used for its heaviness)
5. (figuratively, masculine) weight (importance or influence)
6. (figuratively, masculine) emotional pressure
7. (masculine) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
8. (masculine) weight (value that multiplies a variable)
9. (masculine) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of pesar

pesar

• Verb
• Noun

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Concepts

weight

shot

burden

mass

heft

importance

balance

measure

peso

plumb

weightiness

load

body weight

equilibrium

heaviness

Synonyms

equilíbrio

haltere

massa

ponderação

coeficiente de ponderação

Translations

peso

poids

Gewicht

peso

gewicht

pes

βάρος

pesa

βάρος/φορτίο

وزن

وَزْن

massa

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpe.zu/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: pēnsum

Borrowed from Spanish: peso

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).

Sentences

Ovelha que gosta de perder peso .

Sheep who like to lose weight.