peseta

From Spanish peseta, from peso (“coin or weight”).

• IPA^(key): /pəˈseɪtə/

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peseta (plural pesetas)

1. The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict‎:

     The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.

2. The Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea
3. The Sahrawi peseta, de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
4. The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.

• Eastep, PETase, septae, étapes

• IPA^(key): /peˈseta/, [peˈse.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: pe‧se‧ta

peseta f (plural pesetes)

1. peseta (former currency of Spain and Andorra)

From Spanish peseta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesetɑ/, [ˈpe̞s̠e̞t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -esetɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧se‧ta

peseta

1. peseta

• “peseta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• péséta (1990 reform spelling)

• IPA^(key): /pe.ze.ta/, /pe.se.ta/

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta

• “peseta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• épates, épatés, étapes, pâtées, tapées

• IPA^(key): /peˈseta/ [peˈs̺e.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: pe‧se‧ta

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta (former currency of Spain and Andorra)

• “peseta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): /peˈzɛ.ta/, /peˈze.ta/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛta, -eta
• Hyphenation: pe‧sè‧ta, pe‧sé‧ta

peseta f (plural pesete)

1. peseta

• pesate, sapete

• Rhymes: -etɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧se‧ta

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta (former currency unit of Spain and Andorra)

From peso (“coin or weight”) +‎ -eta (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /peˈseta/ [peˈse.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: pe‧se‧ta

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. (historical) peseta (Spanish currency before the Euro)

• nadie da duros a pesetas (colloquial, becoming dated)
• ser más majo que las pesetas (colloquial, becoming dated)

• “peseta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• piseta

Borrowed from Spanish peseta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /peˈseta/ [pɛˈsɛ.tɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: pe‧se‧ta

peseta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜒᜆ)

1. twenty centavos
2. former coin worth twenty centavos