speso

See also: spéso and spesò

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.
3. A generic term for national units of currency. Thus usona speso 'US dollar', turka speso 'Turkish lira'.

Derived terms

• spesmilo
• spesdeko
• speseto (a hundredth of a speso, sense 2)

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin expēnsus.

Participle

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

1. past participle of spendere

Adjective

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

1. spent

Etymology 2

Verb

speso

1. first-person singular present indicative of spesare

See also

• spesso

Anagrams

• spose