avoirdupois

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  1. noun Avoirdupois weight.
  2. noun Informal Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.

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  1. Middle English avoir de pois, commodities sold by weight, alteration of Old French aveir de peis, goods of weight : aveir, avoir, to have (from Latin habēre; see able) + de, of (from Latin dē, from; see de-) + peis, pois, weight (from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, past participle of pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Prop. averdepois, early modern English averdepois, averdupois, haverdupois, -poise, from Middle English aver de poiz, avoir de pois, aver de peis (later also-paise, -pase), from Old French aver de pes, aveir de peis (equivalent to Middle Latin averia ponderis), literally goods of weight: aver, goods (see aver); de. from Latin de, of; pes, peis, later pois (modern F. poids, by mistaken reference to L. pondus, weight) = Provencal pes, pens = Italian peso, from Latin pensum, weight, from pendere, weigh: see poise, pendant.
 

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