piso

• peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

• Hyphenation: pi‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.so]

píso (plural pisos)

1. peso (currency)

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

• Hyphenation: pi‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.s̪ɔ]

piso

1. peso (Philippines)
2. a coin or note worth one peso

Inherited from Spanish piso (“floor”).

piso

1. floor; story

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiso]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

piso (accusative singular pison, plural pisoj, accusative plural pisojn)

1. (informal) piss
   • 2005, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Armela LeQuint and Ĵak Le Puil, Vojaĝo ĝis Noktofino [Journey to the End of the Night], New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 225:

     Ĉu vi ne trovas ke la malsanuloj odoras pison?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2007, Rubén Gallego, translated by Kalle Kniivilä, Blanko sur Nigro, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 33:

     Laŭ la muroj etendiĝis la vicoj de litoj, el kiuj fluis piso.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2011, Eugène de Zilah, La Princo ĉe la Hunoj, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 295:

     La piso estas kristala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, Sten Johansson, Skabio, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 169:

     Ne plu estis fantomoj tie, nur amaso da urtikoj, kiuj odoris je piso.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015 October, Rikardo Cash, “Duonhora pluvego”, in Probal Daŝgupto, István Ertl, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Suso Moinhos, Tim Westover, editors, Beletra Almanako, 9th year, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 68:

     Tiel mia fumo ne ĝenos ŝin, kaj ŝia piso ne ĝenos min!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2020, Lode Van de Velde, Aspiroj, →ISBN, page 60:

     Poste li iras al la banĉambro por rapida duŝo kaj piso, ŝprucas senodorigilon sub la akselojn kaj surmetas la samajn vestojn kiel la antaŭa tago.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Back-formation from pisar (“to tread, press”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpisʊ]

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, surface

   Synonym: chan

2. storey

   Synonyms: andar, planta

3. apartment

   Synonym: apartamento

4. sole

   Synonym: sola

5. bed (of a cart)

   Synonyms: chedeiro, estrado, leito, sollo

• pisar

• “piso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “piso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “piso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

From Latin piscem.

piso m (plural pisi)

1. fish

• pascà
• pascadur

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.soː/, [ˈpiːs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.so/, [ˈpiːs̬o]

From the root of pīnsō, pistus +‎ -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).

pīsō m (genitive pīsōnis); third declension

1. mortar (hollow vessel used with a pestle)
   • c. 400 CE, Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis liber 8:[1]

     Adversus umores et subitos inpetus oculorum et epiphoras radices betae maxime nigrae ex aqua tepida lavabis et expressas sabano siccabis, deinde tundes in pisone marmoreo et sucum inde linteo intorto exprimes, tum leviter ad carbones despumatum tepefacies et naribus infundes, ita ut is cui medeberis aquam tepidam in ore contineat, et si unus oculus laborabit, diversae partis nares infundes et melle Attico continges.

     ...next you will pound them in a marble mortar...

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pīsō

1. dative/ablative singular of pīsum

• “pīso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• piso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• piso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “piso”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piso”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

piso

1. third-person singular/plural past of pisti

From English puss.

piso

1. cat

   Synonyms: saka, ampaha

2. kitty; puss

From pisar (“to step”).

piso m (plural pisos)

1. storey (level of a building)

   Synonym: andar

2. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: chão

3. surface (to walk on)

   Synonyms: terreno, pavimento

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]

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• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Deverbal from pisar.

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, ground (surface of the earth)

   Synonym: suelo

2. floor, story, storey (level of a building)

   Synonyms: nivel, planta

3. (Spain) flat, apartment

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento, (colloquial in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) depa, apartamiento, (rare or dialectal) vivienda

4. deck (level on a ship or vehicle)

   Synonyms: cubierta, náutica

5. (in compounds, in the plural) decker (bus, bed)

   autobús de dos pisos ― double-decker bus

6. level, layer of a structure e.g. a cake

   Synonym: nivel

7. tier (layer of a cake)

   Synonym: nivel

   torta de tres pisos ― three-tier cake

8. (Chile) footstool

   Synonyms: banqueta, banco, banquillo, reposapiés, escabel

9. (Chile) rug, carpet

   Synonyms: tapiz, choapino, chopino

10. (Spain) sole

    Synonym: suela

11. step (action and effect of stepping on something)

    Synonym: pisada

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

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

• peso

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

piso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (Philippines)
2. a one-peso coin
3. (games, colloquial) one point

Compare Italian piscio

piso m (plural pisi)

1. urine, piss

• pisar

From Old French pissier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsɔ/

piso (first-person singular present pisaf)

1. to piss

   Synonym: pibo

1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piso”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Malay pisau, likely through North Moluccan Malay [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.s̪o/

piso

1. knife

   Synonym: kobi

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics