peseta

See also: pesetä and pęseta

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈseɪtə/

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Noun

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^[1]:

     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

Translations

currency

• Basque: pezeta
• Catalan: pesseta (ca) f
• French: peseta (fr) f
• Galician: peseta (gl) f
• German: Peseta (de) f
• Greek: πεσέτα (el) f (peséta)
• Icelandic: peseti (is) m
• Italian: peseta f

• Japanese: ペセタ (peseta)
• Malay: peseta
• Occitan: pesseta f
• Portuguese: peseta f
• Russian: песе́та (ru) f (peséta)
• Spanish: peseta (es) f
• Volapük: peset (vo)

Anagrams

• Eastep, PETase, septae, étapes

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Asturian

Noun

peseta f (plural pesetes)

1. peseta

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Finnish

Noun

peseta

1. peseta

Declension

Inflection of peseta (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		peseta	pesetat
genitive		pesetan	pesetoiden pesetoitten pesetojen
partitive		pesetaa	pesetoita pesetoja
illative		pesetaan	pesetoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		peseta	pesetat
accusative	nom.	peseta	pesetat
	gen.	pesetan
genitive		pesetan	pesetoiden pesetoitten pesetojen pesetainrare
partitive		pesetaa	pesetoita pesetoja
inessive		pesetassa	pesetoissa
elative		pesetasta	pesetoista
illative		pesetaan	pesetoihin
adessive		pesetalla	pesetoilla
ablative		pesetalta	pesetoilta
allative		pesetalle	pesetoille
essive		pesetana	pesetoina
translative		pesetaksi	pesetoiksi
instructive		—	pesetoin
abessive		pesetatta	pesetoitta
comitative		—	pesetoineen

Possessive forms of peseta (type katiska)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pesetani	pesetamme
2nd person	pesetasi	pesetanne
3rd person	pesetansa

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French

Alternative forms

• péséta (1990 reform spelling)

Noun

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta

Further reading

• “peseta” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épates, épatés, étapes, pâtées, tapées

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Galician

Noun

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

peseta f (plural pesete)

1. peseta

Anagrams

• pesate, sapete

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Portuguese

Noun

peseta f (plural pesetas)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈseta/, [peˈse.t̪a]

Noun

peseta f (plural pesetas)

1. peseta (Spanish currency before the Euro)

Derived terms

• pesetero m, pesetera f

See also

• más majo que las pesetas (colloquial, becoming dated)

Further reading

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