piso

See also: Piso, pisó, and pišo

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti

Proto-Italic *pendō

Latin pendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-sos

Latin -sus

Latin -um

Latin -sum

Latin pēnsum

Vulgar Latin *pēsum

Old Spanish peso

Spanish pesobor.

Tagalog pisobor.

English piso

Borrowed from Tagalog piso.

Noun

piso (plural piso or pisos)

1. Alternative form of peso (“currency of Philippines”).

Catalan

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piso

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

Central Bikol

Alternative forms

• peso

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

píso (plural pisos, Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (currency)

See also

• kuwarta
• manaro
• pirak
• salapi

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish piso (“floor”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧so

Noun

piso

1. floor; story

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Noun

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

1. (informal) piss
   • [1996 June 6, PEJNO Simono, “Aperis nova versio de Legilo. C^u necesas?”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Nu eble mi inter viaj "pisoj", "fekoj", "stultigoj", "kretenigoj", "idiotigoj", "elpugitajxoj", kaj "masturbajxoj" tute akcidente pretervidis vian elegantan retorikon.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

   • 1997 September 7, Manuel M Campagna, “inaj iloj...”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Aliseksemaj viroj havas siajn "ritojn", kiam ili estas inter si -- ruktado, fartado, sakrado ktp ... kaj komuna staranta pisado (nu kiu jxetos la pison plej for antavxen).

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   • 1999 March 19, Serguey Nossov, “Kiel mi ellernis Esperanton”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Ver[ŝ]ajne, la [ĉ]efa kialo por mia esperanti[ĝ]o estas intereso por konati[ĝ]i kun homoj netipikaj, por kiuj en tiu [ĉ]i mondo ekzistas iome pli interesoj kaj celoj ol profito, adultero, "piso kaj feka[ĵ]o de postsocialisma kolektivo", per kiuj estas plena nia nuna vivo.

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   • 1999 June 7, Manuel M Campagna, “En riveroj de Jugoslavio aperis mortinta fisxo”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     S-ro Gxia ("Ji"), la iama prezidento de Baratio, la unua "netusxenda" prezidento de Baratio, iam konfesis al intervjuanto, ke li trinkas glason de sia propra piso cxiumatene, cxar gxi donas al li "elanon".

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   • 1999 September 12, Sebastian Hartwig, “The Esperanto congress in Veszprem (Hungary)/La Esperanta kongreso en Veszprem (Hungario)”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     La tempo, en kiu vi ne plu povas eligi kakon k pison estas la horo de via morto -- mensa _k_ korpa. Tamen oni kutime ne kakas au pisas publike. (Kvankam kelkfoje ja grupe...)

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   • 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.

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

     La piso estas kristala.

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   • 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.

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   • 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!

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   • 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.

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Related terms

• pisi

Further reading

• “piso”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• pisar

Etymology 2

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

References

• “piso”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “piso”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “piso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin piscem.

Noun

piso m (plural pisi)

1. fish

Related terms

• pascà
• pascadur

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.s̬o]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pīsō m (genitive pīsōnis); third declension

1. 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	pīsō	pīsōnēs
genitive	pīsōnis	pīsōnum
dative	pīsōnī	pīsōnibus
accusative	pīsōnem	pīsōnēs
ablative	pīsōne	pīsōnibus
vocative	pīsō	pīsōnēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pīsō

1. 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, 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

Lithuanian

Verb

piso

1. third-person singular/plural past of pisti

Malagasy

Etymology

From English puss.

Noun

piso

1. cat

   Synonyms: saka, ampaha

2. kitty; puss

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.zu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.zu/

• Hyphenation: pi‧so

Etymology 1

From pisar (“to step”).

Noun

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Further reading

• “piso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “piso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peys-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pinésti

Proto-Italic *pinsō

Classical Latin pinsō

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Late Latin pinsō

Old Spanish pisar

Spanish pisardeverb.

Spanish piso

Deverbal from pisar.

Noun

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, (rare or dialectal) apartamiento, 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

Derived terms

• bloque de pisos
• cobro de piso
• dar piso
• derecho de piso
• narcopiso
• piso franco
• piso patera
• piso pélvico
• secador de piso

Related terms

• pisito
• pisotear

Etymology 2

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Further reading

• “piso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “piso”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “piso”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• peso
• pesos — obsolete
• pisos — obsolete

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti

Proto-Italic *pendō

Latin pendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-sos

Latin -sus

Latin -um

Latin -sum

Latin pēnsum

Vulgar Latin *pēsum

Old Spanish peso

Spanish pesobor.

Tagalog piso

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”), from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries)
2. one-peso coin
3. (historical) one-peso banknote
4. (historical) peso (former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth eight Spanish reales)
5. (games, colloquial) one point

Derived terms

• ganggapiso
• gapiso

Related terms

• peseta

See also

• salapi
• sentimo

Further reading

• “piso”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “piso”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• opis

Venetan

Etymology

Compare Italian piscio

Noun

piso m (plural pisi)

1. urine, piss

Related terms

• pisar

Welsh

Etymology

From Old French pissier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsɔ/

Verb

piso (first-person singular present pisaf)

1. (vulgar) to piss

   Synonyms: pibo, troethi

Conjugation

Conjugation of piso (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	pisaf	pisi	pisa	piswn	piswch	pisant	pisir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	piswn	pisit	pisai	pisem	pisech	pisent	pisid
preterite	pisais	pisaist	pisodd	pisasom	pisasoch	pisasant	piswyd
pluperfect	pisaswn	pisasit	pisasai	pisasem	pisasech	pisasent	pisasid, pisesid
present subjunctive	piswyf	pisych	piso	pisom	pisoch	pisont	piser
imperative	—	pisa	pised	piswn	piswch	pisent	piser
verbal noun	piso
verbal adjectives	pisedig pisadwy

Conjugation of piso (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pisa i, pisaf i	pisi di	pisith o/e/hi, pisiff e/hi	piswn ni	piswch chi	pisan nhw
conditional	piswn i, pisswn i	piset ti, pisset ti	pisai fo/fe/hi, pissai fo/fe/hi	pisen ni, pissen ni	pisech chi, pissech chi	pisen nhw, pissen nhw
preterite	pisais i, pises i	pisaist ti, pisest ti	pisodd o/e/hi	pison ni	pisoch chi	pison nhw
imperative	—	pisa	—	—	piswch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

• blodyn piso'n gwely, piso'r gwely (“dandelion, pissabed”)
• codi pais ar ôl piso (“to close the door after the horse has bolted”, literally “to lift one's skirt after pissing”)
• piso bwrw glaw (“to piss down with rain”)
• piso i'r gwynt, piso yn erbyn y gwynt (“to piss into the wind”)
• piso yn cawl rhywun (“to piss in someone's soup”)
• pot piso (“chamber pot”)

Noun

piso m (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) piss

   Synonyms: trwnc, troeth

Derived terms

• fel piso mochyn (yn yr eira) (“crooked”, literally “like pig's piss (in the snow)”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of piso

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
piso	biso	mhiso	phiso

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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 [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.s̪o/

Noun

piso

1. knife

   Synonym: kobi

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics