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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pi‧so
- IPA(key): /ˈpiso/,
Noun
píso (plural pisos)
- peso (currency)
See also
Catalan
Verb
piso
- first-person singular present indicative of pisar
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pi‧so
- IPA(key): /ˈpiso/,
Noun
piso
- peso (Philippines)
- a coin or note worth one peso
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish piso (“floor”).
Noun
piso
- floor; story
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
piso (accusative singular pison, plural pisoj, accusative plural pisojn)
- (informal) piss
2007, Rubén Gallego, translated by Kalle Kniivilä, Blanko sur Nigro, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 33:
2011, Eugène de Zilah, La Princo ĉe la Hunoj, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 295:
2015, Sten Johansson, Skabio, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 169:
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:
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)
Galician
Etymology 1
Back-formation from pisar (“to tread, press”).
Pronunciation
Noun
piso m (plural pisos)
- floor, surface
- Synonym: chan
- storey
- Synonyms: andar, planta
- apartment
- Synonym: apartamento
- sole
- Synonym: sola
- bed (of a cart)
- Synonyms: chedeiro, estrado, leito, sollo
Related terms
References
Etymology 2
Verb
piso
- first-person singular present indicative of pisar
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin piscem.
Noun
piso m (plural pisi)
- fish
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the root of pīnsō, pistus + -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
pīsō m (genitive pīsōnis); third declension
- mortar (hollow vessel used with a pestle)
c. 400 CE,
Marcellus Empiricus,
De medicamentis liber 8:
- 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...
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
pīsō
- dative/ablative singular of pīsum
Further reading
- “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
References
Lithuanian
Verb
piso
- third-person singular/plural past of pisti
Malagasy
Etymology
From English puss.
Noun
piso
- cat
- Synonyms: saka, ampaha
- kitty; puss
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From pisar (“to step”).
Noun
piso m (plural pisos)
- storey (level of a building)
- Synonym: andar
- floor (lower part of a room)
- Synonym: chão
- surface (to walk on)
- Synonyms: terreno, pavimento
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piso
- first-person singular present indicative of pisar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiso/
- Rhymes: -iso
- Syllabification: pi‧so
Etymology 1
Deverbal from pisar.
Noun
piso m (plural pisos)
- floor, ground (surface of the earth)
- Synonym: suelo
- floor, story, storey (level of a building)
- Synonyms: nivel, planta
- (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
- deck (level on a ship or vehicle)
- Synonyms: cubierta, náutica
- (in compounds, in the plural) decker (bus, bed)
- autobús de dos pisos ― double-decker bus
- level, layer of a structure e.g. a cake
- Synonym: nivel
- tier (layer of a cake)
- Synonym: nivel
- torta de tres pisos ― three-tier cake
- (Chile) footstool
- Synonyms: banqueta, banco, banquillo, reposapiés, escabel
- (Chile) rug, carpet
- Synonyms: tapiz, choapino, chopino
- (Spain) sole
- Synonym: suela
- step (action and effect of stepping on something)
- Synonym: pisada
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
piso
- first-person singular present indicative of pisar
Further reading
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).
Pronunciation
Noun
piso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)
- peso (Philippines)
- a one-peso coin
- (games, colloquial) one point
Related terms
See also
Venetian
Etymology
Compare Italian piscio
Noun
piso m (plural pisi)
- urine, piss
Related terms
Welsh
Etymology
From Old French pissier.
Pronunciation
Verb
piso (first-person singular present pisaf)
- to piss
- Synonym: pibo
Conjugation
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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future
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pisa i, pisaf i
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pisi di
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pisith o/e/hi, pisiff e/hi
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piswn ni
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piswch chi
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pisan nhw
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conditional
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piswn i, pisswn i
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piset ti, pisset ti
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pisai fo/fe/hi, pissai fo/fe/hi
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pisen ni, pissen ni
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pisech chi, pissech chi
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pisen nhw, pissen nhw
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preterite
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pisais i, pises i
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pisaist ti, pisest ti
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pisodd o/e/hi
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pison ni
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pisoch chi
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pison nhw
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imperative
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—
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pisa
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—
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—
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piswch
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—
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Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.
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Mutation
References
- 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
West Makian
Etymology
From Malay pisau, likely through North Moluccan Malay .
Pronunciation
Noun
piso
- knife
- Synonym: kobi
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics