different between dug vs duo

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

dug

1. simple past tense and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

Etymology 2

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English d?on (“to suckle”). More at doe.Compare doug

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
   • c 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 5, Scene II

     He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     First Pig.
     I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

Translations

Anagrams

• UDG, gud

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse d?gg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *daww?, *dawwaz (“dew”), cognate with Swedish dagg, English dew, German Tau (“dew”), Dutch dauw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?/, [?d?u??]

Noun

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

1. dew

Inflection

References

• “dug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German d?k, d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz, cognate with German Tuch, Dutch doek (Old Norse dúkr is also borrowed from Low German).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??/, [?d?u?]

Noun

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
2. a piece of canvas or cloth
3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “dug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Hungarian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?du?]
• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

dug

1. (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in

   Synonym: illeszt

2. (transitive) to hide, conceal

   Synonym: rejt

3. (transitive, informal) to have sex

   Synonyms: szexel, kefél

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

1. imperative of duga and duge

Scots

Alternative forms

• duggie (diminutive)

Etymology

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

1. dog.

Verb

dug (third-person singular present dugs, present participle duggin, past duggit, past participle duggit)

1. To stand up to; to outlast.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *d?lg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dû??/

Noun

d?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. debt

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *d?lg?.Cognate with Czech dlouhý.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dû?/

Adjective

d?g (definite d?g?, comparative d?ž?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. long

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Verb

dug

1. imperative of duga.

Anagrams

• Gud, gud

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /d???/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /di??/

Verb

dug

1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

Mutation

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga.

Noun

dug

1. dog

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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