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The peso is the money of the Philippines and of several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia (and others too). Each country has its own peso, with its own value: a Mexican peso is not a Philippine peso, even though they share the name. You have to say which one, or the number on the note will you. The word is borrowed from Spanish peso, which first meant a weight, then a coin of a certain weight. Spain itself no longer uses a peso or a for shopping; Spain uses the euro. In Taiwan, people usually say 披索 for this unit.
披索（臺灣說法；中國大陸較常寫「比索」）
組成Borrowed from Spanish peso. Further back the Spanish word comes from Latin for a weighed amount, from a verb meaning “to weigh.”
同家族的字
- pesetaSpain’s old unit; the Spanish name comes from peso
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pesonoun/ˈpeɪsəʊ/
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historicalA former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
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The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
- The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。