duo
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdjuː.əʊ/, /ˈdʒuː.əʊ/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈdu.oʊ/, /ˈdju.oʊ/
- Rhymes: -uːəʊ
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Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Collective: both, pair, twosome Multiuse 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- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium |
NounEdit
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, Dean, Roger T., 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (pair of two people): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Finnish: duo
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
Central DusunEdit
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Cardinal : duo Ordinal : koduo | ||
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
NumeralEdit
duo
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
duo n
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
duo n (plural duo's, diminutive duootje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
duo (accusative singular duon, plural duoj, accusative plural duojn)
See alsoEdit
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 |
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
duo
DeclensionEdit
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 | |
instructive | — | duoin | |
abessive | duotta | duoitta | |
comitative | — | duoineen |
Possessive forms of duo (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | duoni | duomme |
2nd person | duosi | duonne |
3rd person | duonsa |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
duo m (plural duos)
DescendantsEdit
- → Romanian: duo
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “duo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
InterlinguaEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin duo (“two”).
NumeralEdit
duo
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
duo (invariable)
NounEdit
duo m (invariable)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → English: duo
- → Finnish: duo
- → French: duo
- → Romanian: duo
- → Norwegian:
- → Polish: duo
- → Portuguese: duo
- → Swedish: duo
Further readingEdit
- Prose della volgar lingua[1], 3.II
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
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Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus Adverbial: bis Multiplier: duplex, duplus Distributive: bīnī Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis |
Alternative formsEdit
- Symbol: II
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uɔ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uːo]
Audio (Classical) (file)
NumeralEdit
duo (feminine duae, neuter duo); numeral, plural only
- two; 2
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 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."
- Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.
Usage notesEdit
DeclensionEdit
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).
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: doi
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Constructed languages:
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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[2], 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)
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
duo (duo5 / duo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄨㄛ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𦕰
duo
- Nonstandard spelling of duō.
- Nonstandard spelling of duó.
- Nonstandard spelling of duǒ.
- Nonstandard spelling of duò.
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
MinangkabauEdit
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Cardinal : duo Ordinal : kaduo | ||
EtymologyEdit
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.
NumeralEdit
duo
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
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 NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoar, definite plural duoane)
- a duo (as above)
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian duo, from Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of dwa (“two”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
duo m (plural duos)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
duo n (plural duouri)
DeclensionEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
duo c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of duo | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | duo | duon | duor | duorna |
Genitive | duos | duons | duors | duornas |
West Coast BajauEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.
NumeralEdit
duo
YorubaEdit
EtymologyEdit
Contraction of dúró.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dúó