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piso

piso is the alternative form of peso.

Meaning of peso

Noun

peso (plural pesos)

  1. (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
  2. The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
    • 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...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

Forms of piso

pluralpiso
pluralpisos

Origin of piso

Borrowed from Tagalog piso.

Questions about piso

What is piso the alternative form of?
Piso is the alternative form of peso.

Words near piso in the dictionary

  1. pismirism
  2. Pismo
  3. Pismo Beach
  4. PISN
  5. PISNe
  6. piso
  7. piso-
  8. pisohamate
  9. pisoid
  10. pisoids
  11. Pisok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piso (page history and authors); peso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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