doce
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Doces (confections)
Aragonese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Numeral
doce
Asturian
| < 11 | 12 | 13 > |
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| Cardinal : doce Ordinal : decimosegundu | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
Numeral
doce (indeclinable)
Derived terms
Galician
| [a], [b] ← 11 | 12 | 13 → [a], [b] |
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| Cardinal (standard): doce Cardinal (reintegrationist): doze Ordinal: duodécimo, décimo segundo Ordinal abbreviation: 12º Fractional (standard): doceavo Fractional (reintegrationist): doze avos | ||
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: do‧ce
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.
Numeral
doce (indeclinable)
Noun
doce f pl (plural only)
- (always preceded by the definite article) twelve o'clock
- Synonym: doce en punto
- Son as doce ― It's twelve o'clock.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
doce m or f (plural doces)
- sweet
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- Dime algùnha còusa dòce
como habes doito, é catá,
que si así no no fazèdes,
me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
como estas cousas se fàn,
è madia tendes, senon
eu êime de encabuxar.- Tell me something sweet
As you use to, but beware,
if you don't do it like that
I'll take offence, you'll see.
You know well, it could not be otherwise!
how these things are done,
no doubt about it or else
I'll get angry.
- Tell me something sweet
Derived terms
Noun
doce m (plural doces)
- sweet (candy), confection
References
- “doce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “doze” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “doce” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “doze” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “doce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “doce” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “doce” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Further reading
- “doce” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin
Verb
docē
References
- doce in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin dulcem. Compare Sicilian duci.
Pronunciation
Adjective
doce
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1266: “una mela dolce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
doce (plural doces)
- sweet
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):
- que ſon mais doceſ ca mel
- which are sweeter than honey
- que ſon mais doceſ ca mel
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcem (“sweet”). Compare Sicilian duci.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: do‧ce
Adjective
doce m or f (plural doces)
- sweet
- 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:
- Quando eu me sento à janela
P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça
Vejo a doce imagem d'ela
Quando passa… passa… passa…- When I sit at the window
I see through the panes clouded by snow
The sweet image of her
When she passes… passes… passes…
- When I sit at the window
- 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.
Descendants
- Macanese: dóci
Noun
doce m (plural doces)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.
Related terms
Further reading
Spanish
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| Cardinal: doce Ordinal: duodécimo, decimosegundo, décimo segundo, doceno Ordinal abbreviation: 12.º Multiplier: duodécuplo Fractional: doceavo, duodécimo | ||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 12 | ||
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish doze, dodze from Latin duodecim. Compare English dozen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈdoθe/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈdose/
Audio (Colombia): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -oθe
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ose
- Syllabification: do‧ce
Numeral
doce
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “doce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014