“weight” in Latin

Measure or relation of heaviness; also heaviness itself; (a) PROP., pondus. Roman weight, Romana pondera, nominative plur., (Vid: Liv., 38, 38, quite at the end, talentum ne minus pondo octoginta Romanis ponderibus pendat; i. e., not less than eighty pounds in Roman weight): all things fall to the ground by their own weight, omnia pondere suo in terram feruntur: of great weight, gravis (opposed to levis); grandi pondere: a pound in weight, libram pondo (sc. valens; Vid: Liv., 3, 29): a thousand pounds’ weight of gold, mille (sc. libras) pondo auri (Liv., 5, 48, quite at the end): of the weight of a silver denarius, ad pondus argentei denarii pensum. (b) Figuratively. Importance, pondus: momentum (that which turns the scale, ῥοπή): auctoritas (authority, influence): vis: gravitas (power, force). Weight of words, pondus verborum (Vid: Quint., 10, 1, 97): a man of great weight, homo in quo summa auctoritas est et amplitudo (as a statesman); homo gravis (to whom much is usually assigned): words without weight, verba sine pondere: to have weight, gravem esse (of things and persons); aliquo numero atque honore esse (to stand in good repute; of persons): the thing has weight, res habet gravitatem: to have weight with anyone, pondus or aliquid ponderis habere apud aliquem (of things); aliquo loco et numero esse apud aliquem, numerum obtinere apud aliquem (of persons): to have great weight with anyone, magnum pondus habere, or maximi ponderis esse apud aliquem (of things); multum auctoritate valere or posse apud aliquem (of persons): to have no weight, nullius ponderis esse; ponderis nihil habere (of things); tenui or nulla auctoritate esse (of persons): to attach weight to anything, vim tribuere alicui rei: to give weight to a thing, alicui rei pondus afferre: weight of argument, vis; momentum; [Vid: COGENCY].

A body of a certain weight; (a) by which one weighs other bodies, pondus (general term; especially that which is placed in a scale): sacoma, -atis, neuter (σήκωμα, τό, weight hung on the other side of the balance or beam): aequipondium (so far as it forms a counterpoise to a heavy body). A false weight, pondera iniqua (Vid: Liv., 5, 48, quite at the end; to use such, adhibere): a stamped weight, pondus publice probatum (after Modestinus, Dig., 48, 10, 32, No. 1): to put weights in the scale, pondera in libram imponere: to buy or sell by weight, pondere emere or vendere: to give by weight, ad sacoma appendere: to weigh out, give or take anything by the weight of a silver denarius, aliquid ad pondus argentei denarii pendere (e.g., a medicine, etc.); to deliver anything by weight, ad sacoma pondus alicujus rei praestare (Vid: Vitr., 9, praef., §9 and 10).

That which one hangs on to anything; perhaps libramentum plumbi (with Liv., 24, 34).