speso

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See also: spéso and spesò

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Italian. Parallel to Esperanto spezo, by analogy with voicing pairs such as pesi/pezo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspe.so/
  • Hyphenation: spe‧so

Noun

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speso (accusative singular speson, plural spesoj, accusative plural spesojn)

  1. (numismatics) An obsolete Esperanto international unit of currency used by a few banks before World War I, equal to 1⁄1000 of a spesmilo.
  2. (numismatics) A modern unit of currency of the Civita Banko of the Esperanta Civito (Esperanto Polity), with a value fixed at eighty Swiss francs.[1]
  3. A generic term for national units of currency. Thus usona speso 'US dollar', turka speso 'Turkish lira'.[2]

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ La speso estos oficiala referenco, ©2006 Esperanta Civito
  2. ^ La Gazeto, 30 Sept 1985, p. 10.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspe.zo/, (traditional) /ˈspe.so/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
  • Hyphenation: spé‧so

Etymology 1

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From Latin expēnsus.

Participle

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speso (feminine spesa, masculine plural spesi, feminine plural spese)

  1. past participle of spendere

Adjective

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speso (feminine spesa, masculine plural spesi, feminine plural spese)

  1. spent

Etymology 2

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Verb

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speso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of spesare

See also

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References

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  1. ^ speso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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