different between due vs duo

English

Etymology

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin d?b?re, present active infinitive of d?be? (“I owe”), from d?- (“from”) +? habe? (“I have”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dyo?o, jo?o, IPA^(key): /dju?/, /d?u?/
  • Homophone: dew
• (US) enPR: do?o, IPA^(key): /du/
  • Homophones: dew, do, doo
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: jo?o, IPA^(key): /d???/
  • Homophones: dew, Jew
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. Owed or owing.

   Synonyms: needed, owing, to be made, required

2. Appropriate.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.

3. Scheduled; expected.

   Synonyms: expected, forecast

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   Synonym: expected

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
   • 1852, John David Forbes, "Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science" in Encyclopædia Britannica

     the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.

   The river runs due north for about a mile.

Translations

Noun

due (plural dues)

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   Give him his due — he is a good actor.
2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters

     Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.

4. Right; just title or claim.

Hyponyms

• light due

Derived terms

• give someone his due
• give the devil his due

Translations

Further reading

• due in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• due in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• due at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Deu., edu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?, cognate with Norwegian due, Swedish duva, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??/, [?d?u?u]
• Synonym: duge

Noun

due c (singular definite duen, plural indefinite duer)

1. pigeon, dove

Inflection

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From du +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?due/
• Rhymes: -ue

Adverb

due

1. secondly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/

Participle

due

1. feminine singular of the past participle of devoir

Ido

Etymology

From du (“two”) +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du?e/

Adverb

due

1. both

   Synonym: ambe (neologism)

Italian

Alternative forms

• dui (archaic, literary)
• duo m or f (archaic, literary)

Etymology

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.e/
• Hyphenation: dù?e

Numeral

due

1. two

Noun

due m (invariable)

1. two

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Middle English

Adjective

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Noun

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Noun

due f or m (definite singular dua or duen, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. dove, pigeon, culver (bird)

   Hyponym: duestegg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du??/
• Rhymes: -u??
• Hyphenation: du?e

Adverb

due

1. Only used in a due (“indicating two musicians or sections play together”)

References

• “due” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²d???/

Noun

due f (definite singular dua, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. A bird of the family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.

Derived terms

References

• “due” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Common contraction of du (“you (sing.)”) and e, colloquial pronunciation spelling of är (“are”).

Pronunciation

Contraction

due

1. (nonstandard, text messaging, Internet slang) ur, you're, you are

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