duo
English edit
Etymology edit
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of two, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdjuː.əʊ/, /ˈdʒuː.əʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈdu.oʊ/, /ˈdju.oʊ/
- Rhymes: -uːəʊ
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Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Reverse order ordinal: second to last, second from last, last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Group collective: both, pair, twosome Multipart collective: doublet, couple, couplet Greek or Latinate collective: dyad Metric collective prefix: double- Greek collective prefix: di-, duo- Latinate collective prefix: bi- Fractional: half Metric fractional prefix: demi- Latinate fractional prefix: semi- Greek fractional prefix: hemi- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium |
Noun edit
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.
- 2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music:
- I noticed early on, in playing a duo with a violinist, that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
Synonyms edit
- (pair of two people): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: duo
Translations edit
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Central Dusun edit
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Cardinal : duo Ordinal : koduo | ||
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
Numeral edit
duo
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
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duo n
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Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
duo n (plural duo's, diminutive duootje n)
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Esperanto edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
duo (accusative singular duon, plural duoj, accusative plural duojn)
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Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text) | ||||||
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aso | duo | trio | kvaro | kvino | seso | sepo |
oko | naŭo | deko | fanto, bubo | damo | reĝo | ĵokero |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
duo
Declension edit
Inflection of duo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | duo | duot | ||
genitive | duon | duojen | ||
partitive | duoa | duoja | ||
illative | duoon | duoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | duo | duot | ||
accusative | nom. | duo | duot | |
gen. | duon | |||
genitive | duon | duojen | ||
partitive | duoa | duoja | ||
inessive | duossa | duoissa | ||
elative | duosta | duoista | ||
illative | duoon | duoihin | ||
adessive | duolla | duoilla | ||
ablative | duolta | duoilta | ||
allative | duolle | duoille | ||
essive | duona | duoina | ||
translative | duoksi | duoiksi | ||
abessive | duotta | duoitta | ||
instructive | — | duoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “duo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
duo m (plural duos)
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: duo
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “duo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin duo (“two”).
Numeral edit
duo
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin duo (“two”).
Pronunciation edit
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duo (invariable)
Noun edit
duo m (invariable)
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Descendants edit
- → English: duo
- → Finnish: duo
- → French: duo
- → Romanian: duo
- → Norwegian:
- → Polish: duo
- → Portuguese: duo
- → Swedish: duo
Further reading edit
- Prose della volgar lingua[2], 3.II
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
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3 → |
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Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus, alter Adverbial: bis Multiplier: duplex, duplus Distributive: bīnus Collective: bīniō Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis |
Alternative forms edit
- Symbol: II
Etymology edit
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
From Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Old Church Slavonic дъва (dŭva), and Old English twā (whence English two).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uːo]
Numeral edit
duo (feminine duae, neuter duo); numeral, plural only
- two; 2
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 45:
- Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.
- He said that two things had abashed him.
- Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Zacharias.4.12:
- et respondi secundo et dixi ad eum quid sunt duae spicae olivarum quae sunt iuxta duo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro
- And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
- et respondi secundo et dixi ad eum quid sunt duae spicae olivarum quae sunt iuxta duo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro
- 1500, Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia:
- Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.
- "Not even Hercules fights against two."
Usage notes edit
Declension edit
Numeral, plural only.
Number | Plural | ||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | duo | duae | duo |
Genitive | duōrum | duārum | duōrum |
Dative | duōbus | duābus | duōbus |
Accusative | duōs duo |
duās | duo |
Ablative | duōbus | duābus | duōbus |
Vocative | duo | duae | duo |
Note: The genitive masculine and neuter can also be found in the contracted form duum (also spelt duûm).
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- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: doi
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Constructed languages:
See also edit
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- duo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to divide into two factions: in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
- to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
- to divide into two factions: in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𦕰
duo
- Nonstandard spelling of duō.
- Nonstandard spelling of duó.
- Nonstandard spelling of duǒ.
- Nonstandard spelling of duò.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Minangkabau edit
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Cardinal : duo Ordinal : kaduo | ||
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayic *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa. False cognate of Latin duo.
Numeral edit
duo
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoar, definite plural duoane)
- a duo (as above)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian duo, from Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of dwa (“two”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
- duo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
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duo m (plural duos)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
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duo n (plural duouri)
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
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duo c
- a duo
Declension edit
Declension of duo | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | duo | duon | duor | duorna |
Genitive | duos | duons | duors | duornas |
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Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɨː.ɔ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.ɔ/
Verb edit
duo (first-person singular present duaf)
- (intransitive)
- (transitive) to make black, to blacken (also figuratively)
Conjugation edit
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | duaf | dui | dua | duwn | duwch | duant | duir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
duwn | duit | duai | duem | duech | duent | duid | |
preterite | duais | duaist | duodd | duasom | duasoch | duasant | duwyd | |
pluperfect | duaswn | duasit | duasai | duasem | duasech | duasent | duasid, duesid | |
present subjunctive | duwyf | duych | duo | duom | duoch | duont | duer | |
imperative | — | dua | dued | duwn | duwch | duent | duer | |
verbal noun | duo | |||||||
verbal adjectives | duedig duadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | dua i, duaf i | dui di | duith o/e/hi, duiff e/hi | duwn ni | duwch chi | duan nhw |
conditional | duwn i, duswn i | duet ti, duset ti | duai fo/fe/hi, dusai fo/fe/hi | duen ni, dusen ni | duech chi, dusech chi | duen nhw, dusen nhw |
preterite | duais i, dues i | duaist ti, duest ti | duodd o/e/hi | duon ni | duoch chi | duon nhw |
imperative | — | dua | — | — | duwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
duo | dduo | nuo | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “duo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Coast Bajau edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
Numeral edit
duo
Yoruba edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of dúró.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dúó