dos

• do's

• IPA^(key): /duːz/
• 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.

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

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

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

dos

1. plural of do

From Old Catalan dos, 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, 2023
• “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

Akin to Spanish, from Latin duo.

dos

1. two

• dus (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

From Old 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 [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 30

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• “dos” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Spanish dos

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

dos

1. two

   Synonym: dua

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔs]
• Hyphenation: dos

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

1. nonstandard 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
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 dos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• 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.

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”). Doublet of dosis. Cognate with Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis), Sanskrit दिति (díti).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /doːs/, [d̪oːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dos/, [d̪ɔs]

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

From English dose.

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

1. 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 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

From Portuguese dois and Spanish dos and Kabuverdianu dos.

dos

1. two (2)

• d'os (dated)

dos m pl

1. 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)

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)

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): /ˈdos/ [ˈd̪os]

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• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. two

dos m pl

1. plural of do

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

• 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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/, [ˈdos]

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

1. (card games) two (card)

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

• IPA^(key): /dɔ/

dos m

1. (anatomy) back

• IPA^(key): /doːs/
• Rhymes: -oːs

dos

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

• cer (South Wales)

dos n

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