dos

• do's

In dos and don'ts:

• IPA^(key): /duːz/

In music:

• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊz/

dos

1. plural of do

• DSO, OD's, ODS, OSD, SDO, SOD, SoD, dso, ods, sod

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

dos

1. two

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

dos (indeclinable)

1. two

From Old Occitan dos, from Latin duōs, accusative form of duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Rhymes: -os

dos m (feminine dues)

1. 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.

• sabràs dos i dos quants fan

dos m (plural dosos)

1. two

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdos/

dos

1. plural of do

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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔs/

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.
• “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.

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

From Old Portuguese dos, from de + os.

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

1. contraction of de (“of”) + os (“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 […]

From Old French dos, from Latin dorsum (through a Vulgar Latin *dossum). Compare Romansch dies, 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)
3. (swimming) backstroke
4. (book) spine

• tranchant

• dorsal

• “dos” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

• IPA^(key): /d̪ʊs̺/

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

1. of the; from the

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

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

dos m (genitive singular dois, nominative plural dosanna)

1. tuft

• "dos" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 dos”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299
• Entries containing “dos” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “dos” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Portuguese dois.

dos

1. two (2)

From Portuguese dois, from Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo.

dos

1. two

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

dos (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דוס‎)

1. two

From Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /doːs/

dōs f (genitive dōtis); third declension

1. dowry
2. gift, endowment, talent

Third declension.

• dōtō

• Catalan: dot
• Dalmatian: duauta
• French: dot
• Italian: dota, dote
• Mozarabic: addóte
• Portuguese: dote
• Spanish: dote

• 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, 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. 3rd person singular future indicative form of dot
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of dot

dos (plural dos-dos, informal first-person possessive dosku, second-person possessive dosmu, third-person possessive dosnya)

1. dose

• 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.

dos m (feminine doas)

1. two

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ISBN 9782912293046, page 360.

From Vulgar Latin *dossum, from Latin dorsum.

dos 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)

• Catalan: dos
• Occitan: dos

From Portuguese dois and Spanish dos and Kabuverdianu dos.

dos

1. two (2)

• d'os (dated)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /dus/, /ˈdos/

dos

1. Contraction of de os (“pertaining or relating to the”).; of the; from the (masculine plural)

   dos Santos

   of the Saints

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:do.

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

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

• 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)

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

• IPA^(key): /dos/, [d̪os]
• Hyphenation: dos

dos

1. two

• dos puntos

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

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dos c

1. dose (of medication)

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): /dos/

dos

1. two

• dalawa

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

dos m

1. (anatomy) back

• IPA^(key): /doːs/

dos

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

• cer (South Wales)