different between dud vs duo

English

Etymology

From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?d, IPA^(key): /d?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

dud (plural duds)

1. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
2. (informal) A failure of any kind.
   • 2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014:

     At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.

   1. (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
   2. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
3. (obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

Synonyms

• (losing lottery ticket): blank

Translations

References

See also

• wet firecracker

Anagrams

• DDU, UDD

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (d?d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?t/

Noun

dud m (collective, singulative dudu or duda, plural dwied, paucal dudiet)

1. worms; worms as a species

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Noun

dud m (plural duzi)

1. mulberry (tree)

Derived terms

• dud?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûd/

Noun

d?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. mulberry (fruit)

Declension

Synonyms

• m?rva

Welsh

Noun

dud

1. Soft mutation of tud.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?. Doublet of two, from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dju?.??/, /?d?u?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?du.o?/, /?dju.o?/

Noun

duo (plural duos)

1. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
2. Any pair of two people.
3. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
4. A song in two parts; a duet.

Synonyms

• (pair of two people): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

Related terms

• duet

Translations

See also

• trio
• quartet

Anagrams

• oud, udo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?duo]
• Hyphenation: duo

Noun

duo n

1. duet

Declension

Synonyms

• duet

Related terms

• duál
• dualita
• duální
• dualismus
• dualista
• dualistický

Further reading

• duo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• duo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dy(?)o?/
• Hyphenation: duo

Noun

duo n (plural duo's, diminutive duootje n)

1. twosome

Synonyms

• tweetal

Derived terms

• cabaretduo
• duomoeder
• duovader
• zangduo

Related terms

• duet

Anagrams

• oud

Esperanto

Etymology

From du +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?duo/
• Hyphenation: du?o
• Rhymes: -uo

Noun

duo (accusative singular duon, plural duoj, accusative plural duojn)

1. twosome, pair, couple

   Synonyms: duopo, paro

2. the digit or figure two

See also

Finnish

Noun

duo

1. duo, twosome

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?o/

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

1. duo (combination of two things)
2. (music) duet (a musical composition for two performers)

See also

• solo, trio

Further reading

• “duo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• d'où

Interlingua

Numeral

duo

1. two

Italian

Etymology

From Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.o/
• Hyphenation: dù?o
• Rhymes: -uo

Numeral

duo

1. Obsolete form of due.

Adjective

duo m (or invariable)

1. Obsolete form of due.

Noun

duo m (invariable)

1. Obsolete form of due.
2. duo
3. (music) duet

Synonyms

• (2, 3): duetto

Related terms

• due

References

• Prose della volgar lingua[1], 3.II

Latin

Alternative forms

• Symbol: II

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?. Cognates include Ancient Greek ??? (dúo), Sanskrit ??? (dvá) and Old English tw? (English two).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?du.o/, [?d?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?du.o/, [?d?u??]

Numeral

duo (feminine duae, neuter duo); numeral, plural only

1. two; 2
   • 1500, Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia

     Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.

     "Not even Hercules fights against two."

Usage notes

• See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Declension

Numeral, plural only.

Note: The genitive masculine and neuter can also be found in the contracted form duum (also spelt duûm).

Derived terms

• duabus sellis sedeo

Related terms

Descendants

• Eastern:
  • Aromanian: doi m, dao f, dau f, dauã f, doauã f
  • Istro-Romanian: doi
  • Romanian: doi m, dou? f
• Franco-Provençal: doux
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: doi
  • Venetian: do m, due f
• Iberian:
  • Aragonese: dos
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: dos
    • Mirandese: dous m, dues f
  • Old Portuguese: dous m, duas f
    • Galician: dous m, dúas f
    • Portuguese: dois m, duas f
  • Old Spanish: dos
    • Ladino: dos
    • Spanish: dos
• East Iberian:
  • Old Occitan: dos m, doas f, doi
    • Catalan: dos m, dues f
    • Occitan: dos m, doas f, dui, doi, (Aranese) dus
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: dui m, duie f
  • Dalmatian: doi
  • Istriot: dui, duj
  • Italian: due
    • ? English: duo
    • ? Italian: duetto
      • ? English: duet
  • Neapolitan: dduje
  • Sicilian: dui
• Oïl:
  • Old French: deus
    • Middle French: deus
      • French: deux
      • Norman: deux, daeux
    • Walloon: deus
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: doi, dôs
  • Ladin: doi
  • Romansch: dus m, duas f
• Southern:
  • Sardinian: duos, duas
• Constructed:
  • Esperanto: du
  • Ido: du
  • Interlingua: dua
  • Novial: du

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• duo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• duo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• duo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• duo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Mandarin

Romanization

duo (Zhuyin ????)

1. Pinyin transcription of ????

duo

1. Nonstandard spelling of du?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of duó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of du?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of duò.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

Numeral

duo

1. two

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoer, definite plural duoene)

1. a duo (a group of two entertainers, or a piece of music for two musical instruments (also known as a duet))

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoar, definite plural duoane)

1. a duo (as above)

Polish

Etymology

From Italian duo, from Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.?/

Noun

duo n (indeclinable)

1. (music) duo (group of two musicians)

   Synonym: duet

2. (music) duo (piece of music written for two musicians)

   Synonym: duet

3. duo (group of two people or things)

   Synonym: duet

Further reading

• duo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• duo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo.

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

1. duo

   Synonym: dupla

Romanian

Etymology

From French duo

Noun

duo n (plural duouri)

1. duet

Declension

Swedish

Noun

duo c

1. duo, duet

Declension

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

Numeral

duo

1. two