speso
Pronunciation: /ˈspeso/
“speso” is an Esperanto word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
- speso (an obsolete Esperanto international unit of currency used by a few banks before World War I, equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a spesmilo)
- A modern unit of currency of the Civita Banko of the Esperanta Civito (Esperanto Polity), with a value fixed at eighty Swiss francs.
- A generic term for national units of currency. Thus usona speso 'US dollar', turka speso 'Turkish lira'.
Etymology
From Italian spesa or German Spesen. Parallel to Esperanto spezo, by analogy with voicing pairs such as pesi/pezo.
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