dos

• do's

• IPA^(key): /duːz/

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• Rhymes: -uːz

dos

1. plural of do
   • 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David‎:

     With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos."

• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊz/
• Rhymes: -oʊz

dos

1. (music) plural of do
   • 2020, Jennifer Snodgrass, Teaching Music Theory, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

     In functional harmonic progression, three “Dos” in a row within the Do-Ti test indicate chord changes that can only be this descending third pattern.

• ods, sod, OD's, ODS, dso, OS&D, SOD, OSD, ODs, SDO, SoD, DSO

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

dos

1. two

From Proto-Nuristani *daca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/

dos (Sanu)^[1]

1. ten

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/,

dos (indeclinable)

1. two

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Hyphenation: dos

dos (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym: duwa

Inherited from Latin duōs, accusative form of duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Occitan dos, French deux, Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -os

dos m (feminine dues)

1. (cardinal number) two

• Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, except un/una (“1”), dos/dues (“2”), cents/centes (“100s”) and its compounds. When used as nouns, Catalan cardinal numbers are treated as masculine singular nouns in most contexts, but in expressions involving time such as la una i trenta (1:30) or les dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine noun hora has been elided.

• dos punts
• sabràs dos i dos quants fan
• tocar el dos

dos m (plural dosos)

1. two
2. (castells) torre
3. (castells) One of a pair of castellers in the pom de dalt, who form the third-highest level of the castell

• (originally, Italianate) IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• (more commonly) IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

dos

1. plural of do (“do (note of the musical scale)”)

Inherited from Old Catalan dos, from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum (“back”). Compare dors, a borrowed doublet.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

dos m (plural dossos)

1. Archaic form of dors.

• tocar el dos

• “dos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “dos” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Contraction of dones. Cognate with Welsh dod

dos

1. to come, arrive

Borrowed from Middle French dos (“back”).

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

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• Hyphenation: dos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

dos m (plural dossen, diminutive dosje n)

1. garb, clothing, especially extravagant or unusual clothes
2. pelt, fur
3. patch of hair, especially one's headhair

Akin to Spanish, from Latin duo.

dos

1. two

• dus (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

From Old Galician-Portuguese dos, equivalent to de (“of”) +‎ os (masculine plural definite article).

dos m pl (singular do, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. (Mañegu) of the
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     Esti términu Mañegu, o mais pequenu dos tres, formaba parti, con términus de Vilamel i Trevellu, da pruvincia de Salamanca hasta o anu 1833 […]

     This San Martinese locality, the smallest of the three, formed, along with the Vilamen and Trevejo localities, the Salamanca province until the year 1833

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old French dos, from Latin dorsum (through Vulgar Latin dossum). Compare Romansch dies, Catalan dors, Italian dosso, and Romanian dos.

• IPA^(key): /do/

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dos m (plural dos)

1. (anatomy) back (of a person)
2. (in the plural) backs (of persons) (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. (swimming) backstroke
4. spine (of a book)

• tranchant

• dorsal

• “dos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine plural definite article os (“the”). Akin to Portuguese dos (de + os).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdus/
• Rhymes: -us

dos m pl (masculine do, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. of the; from the

• “dos”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dos”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Hyphenation: dos

dos

1. two

   Synonym: dua

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔs/
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of dus

dos

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of dus

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɔsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠʌsˠ/

From Old Irish doss (“bush, thicket, tree”).

dos m (genitive singular dois, nominative plural dosanna)

1. tuft

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dos”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “dos”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

dos m (genitive singular dosa)

1. Alternative form of gus (“force, vigor”)

From Portuguese dois.

dos

1. two (2)

From Portuguese dois, from Latin duo.

dos

1. two

From Latin duōs, accusative of duo.

dos (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דוס)

1. two

From Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis, from *deh₃- (“give”).^[1] Doublet of dosis. Cognate with Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis), Sanskrit दिति (díti).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /doːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dos/,

dōs f (genitive dōtis); third declension

1. dowry
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.319–320:

     ‘saepe mihi Zephyrus ‘dōtēs corrumpere nōlī
     ipsa tuās’ dīxit: dōs mihi vīlis erat.’

     “Often Zephyrus said to me, ‘Don’t destroy your own dowry.’ My dowry was of no value to me.”
     (Flora (mythology) stopped caring for flowers when the early Romans neglected to worship her deity; Zephyrus, the west wind of spring, was her consort.)

2. gift, endowment, talent

Third-declension noun.

• dōtālis
• dōtō

• “dos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dos 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)
• dos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a dowry to one's daughter: dotem filiae dare
    
• “dos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dos”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

dos

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of dot

From English dose.

dos (Jawi spelling دوس, plural dos-dos, informal 1st possessive dosku, 2nd possessive dosmu, 3rd possessive dosnya)

1. (except Indonesia) dose

• dosis (Indonesia)

From Dutch doos, from Middle Dutch dose (since 1361), probably from Latin dosis (“the small box in which a dose of medication was given”).

dos (plural dos-dos, informal 1st possessive dosku, 2nd possessive dosmu, 3rd possessive dosnya)

1. (Indonesia) carton, cardboard box

• dus (Indonesia)

• “dos” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /doːs/

dos

1. second-person singular imperative of mynet

From Old French dos, from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum.

dos m (plural dos)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) back (of a person)

dōs

1. locative singular of dōt

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdus/

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• Hyphenation: dos

dos m (feminine doas)

1. two

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 360.

From Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum.

dos oblique singular, m (oblique plural dos, nominative singular dos, nominative plural dos)

1. (anatomy) back

• French: dos
• Norman: dos (Jersey)
• Walloon: dos

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

dos

1. two (2)

• Occitan: dos

• II (representation in Roman numerals)

From Latin duō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/

dos m (femenine duas)

1. two

• Spanish: dos

From Portuguese dois and Spanish dos and Kabuverdianu dos.

dos

1. two (2)

• d'os (dated)

dos m pl

2. Contraction of de os (“of/from the (masculine plural)”): masculine plural of do

   dos Santos

   of the Saints

For quotations using this term, see Citations:do.

• do (singular form)
• das (feminine form)
• da (singular feminine form)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum. Compare French dos and Romansch dies.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Rhymes: -os

dos n (plural dosuri)

1. back

   Synonym: spate

2. bottom, behind, buttocks

   Synonym: fund

3. reverse
4. backside, rear
5. tails (on a coin)

Inherited from Latin duōs, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Old English twa (English two), Persian دو.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/

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• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. two

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

dos m pl

1. plural of do

• “dos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• IPA^(key): /duːs/

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dos c

1. dose (of a pharmaceutical or drug)

• dos in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed from Spanish dos (“two”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym: dalawa

   • 2017, Curtis McFarland, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Diksyunaryong Monolingwal sa Filipino: (Monolingual Dictionary in Filipino)‎:

     Ang dos na bilang ay suwerte para sa kanya.

     The number two is lucky for him.

dos (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. (card games) two (card)

• “dos”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Old French dos, from Vulgar Latin *dossum, from Latin dorsum.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ/

dos m

1. (anatomy) back

• IPA^(key): /doːs/
• Rhymes: -oːs

Borrowed from English dose.

dos f (plural dosys)

1. (medicine) dose

   Synonyms: dogn, mesur

2. share, portion

   Synonym: cyfran

dos m

1. (rare except in derived terms) drip, drop

   Synonyms: dafn, defnyn, diferyn

• diddos (“watertight”)
• dosog (“drippy”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dos

1. (North Wales) second-person singular imperative of mynd

   Synonym: (South Wales) cer

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dos”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Proto-Hmong *ɢləŋᴮ (“vegetables in the genus Allium”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dɒ˩/

dos (classifier: lub)

1. (small) onion, leek

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

dos

1. (anatomy) back (of a person)
2. (in the plural) backs (of persons)
3. (swimming) backstroke