# pardo

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #52,545

## Definitions
1. A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pardo