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duo
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)
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
- Any pair of two people.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- twosome, pair, couple
- Synonyms: duopo, paro
- the digit or figure two
See also
Finnish
Noun
duo
- duo, twosome
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?o/
Noun
duo m (plural duos)
- duo (combination of two things)
- (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
- 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
- Obsolete form of due.
Adjective
duo m (or invariable)
- Obsolete form of due.
Noun
duo m (invariable)
- Obsolete form of due.
- duo
- (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
- two; 2
- 1500, Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia
- Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.
- "Not even Hercules fights against two."
- Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.
- 1500, Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia
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
- Old Occitan: dos m, doas f, doi
- 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
- Middle French: deus
- Old French: 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 ????)
- Pinyin transcription of ????
duo
- Nonstandard spelling of du?.
- Nonstandard spelling of duó.
- Nonstandard spelling of du?.
- 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
- two
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoer, definite plural duoene)
- 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)
- 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)
- (music) duo (group of two musicians)
- Synonym: duet
- (music) duo (piece of music written for two musicians)
- Synonym: duet
- 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)
- duo
- Synonym: dupla
Romanian
Etymology
From French duo
Noun
duo n (plural duouri)
- duet
Declension
Swedish
Noun
duo c
- duo, duet
Declension
West Coast Bajau
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
Numeral
duo
- two
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doo
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: do?o, IPA(key): /du?/
- (US) enPR: do?o, IPA(key): /du/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: dew, do, due
Noun
doo
- (childish) feces
- Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop
Interjection
doo
- (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
- 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music (page 272)
- […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.
- 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music (page 272)
Related terms
- doo-wop
Anagrams
- ODO, OOD
Aiwoo
Pronoun
doo
- (interrogative) what
- (interrogative) how
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Gooniyandi
Noun
doo
- cave
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?- (“black”).
Adjective
doo
- black
- inky
- Synonym: dooagh
Derived terms
- Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)
Noun
doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)
- ink
Derived terms
Verb
doo
- to ink
Mutation
See also
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tò?/
Particle
doo
- Part of the negative correlative:
- With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:
- With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:
Derived terms
Pronunciation
Verb
doo
- Abbreviation of doolee? (“it will be”).
- When paired with ?t?éé?, forms a conditional:
See also
- dóó
- -dóó
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
doo
- (obsolete) past plural of døy
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -o.u
Verb 1
doo
- first-person singular (eu) present indicative of doer
Verb 2
doo
- first-person singular (eu) present indicative of doar
Rohingya
Etymology
Compare Assamese ?? (da, “a big knife”)
Noun
doo
- knife
Scots
Etymology
From Old English *d?fe (compare woman's given name D?fe); akin to Old High German t?ba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du?/, /d?u/
Noun
doo (plural doos)
- dove, pigeon (bird of the dove and pigeon family: Columbidae)
Derived terms
- King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)
Solon
Noun
doo
- song
References
- Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.
Teposcolula Mixtec
Etymology
From Proto-Mixtec *?dòò?.
Noun
doo
- cane
Derived terms
References
- Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”
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