noun, masculine/pwa/
weight
Related: de poids, deux poids et deux mesures, faire le poids, faire son poids, poids léger, poids lourd, poids mort, poids moyen, prendre du poids, surpoids
Inherited from Middle French poix, from Old French pois, peis, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum. Spelling influenced by Latin pondus with the same meaning; both ultimately from the root of pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensum, which was borrowed.