English
speso
Speso comes from Esperanto speso.
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English speso
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1913, John Cresson Trautwine, Foreign Monetary Units and Coins. Values in U. S. Money.: “Esperantists. (From Am. Esperantist Co.) Spesmilo = 10 spescentoj…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- EsperantomodernspesoWiktionary, English speso
- Englishearliest quotation 1913spesoWiktionary, English speso. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1913, John Cresson Trautwine, Foreign Monetary Units and Coins. Values in U. S. Money.: “Esperantists. (From Am. Esperantist Co.) Spesmilo = 10 spescentoj…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- ‘to stretch’
pound, depend, span, pendant, poise, pansy, pensive, 15 more
through Proto-Italic *pendō ‘to hang, put in a hanging position’
through Latin pendō ‘weigh, weigh out’
spending, compensation, pension, compensate, appendix, suspend, perpendicular, penthouse, compendium, dispensation, recompense, append, spender, piso, 11 more
through Latin expendō ‘to weigh’
expensive, spend, expenditure, expend, 4 more
through Late Latin expēnsa
Today it means
noun An obsolete unit of Esperanto international currency.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “speso”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Esperanto speso / speso