doce

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• dotze
• doze

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doce

1. twelve

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : doce     Ordinal : decimosegundu

Alternative forms

• dolce

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

Derived terms

• docenu

Galician

Galician cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : doce     Ordinal : duodécimo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoθɪ], (western) [ˈdosɪ]

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

Noun

doce f pl

1. (always preceded by the definite article) twelve o'clock

   Son as doce ― It's twelve o'clock.

   Synonym: doce en punto

Related terms

• ducia

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”).

Doces (confections)

Alternative forms

• dulce (proscribed)

Adjective

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• auga doce
• herba doce

Noun

doce m (plural doces)

1. 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

1. second-person singular present active imperative of doceō

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

From Latin dulcem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈroː(t)ʃə], [ˈdoːʒɐ]

Adjective

doce

1. sweet

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• doçe

Etymology

From Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.t͡se/

Adjective

doce (plural doces)

1. 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 […]

Descendants

• Galician: doce
• Mirandese: doce
• Portuguese: doce
  • Papiamentu (?): dushi
  • Sãotomense: dochi

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcem (“sweet”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.se/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.s(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: do‧ce

Adjective

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. 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…

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.

Noun

doce m (plural doces)

1. sweet, candy
2. (Brazil, slang) LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.

Related terms

• adoçado
• adoçar
• adocicado
• adocicar
• doçaria
• doceiro

 

Further reading

• “doce” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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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/ [ˈd̪o.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.se]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -oθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification: do‧ce

Numeral

doce

1. twelve

Related terms

• diez
• docena
• doceno
• dos

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: dose
• → Tagalog: dose

Further reading

• “doce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014