dous

See also: doûs

Breton

Adjective

dous

  1. sweet

Galician
Galician cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : dous
    Ordinal : segundo
Galician Wikipedia article on dous

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese dous, from Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo. Cognate with Portuguese dois and Spanish dos.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdows]
  • Audio(file)

Numeral

dous m (feminine dúas)

  1. two

References
  • “dous” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “dous” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “dous” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “dous” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “dous” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo.

Numeral

dous

  1. two

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin dulcis, dulcem.

Adjective

dous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular douse)

  1. soft (not hard)
  2. (by extension) soft, tender
Derived terms
Descendants
  • French: doux
  • Norman: doux

Etymology 2

See deus.

Noun

dous m

  1. Alternative form of deus (two)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dulcis.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /duws/

Adjective

dous m (feminine singular dousa, masculine plural dous, feminine plural dousas)

  1. soft (not hard)
  2. (by extension) soft, tender, sweet

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Portuguese
Old Portuguese cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : dous

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdows̺/

Numeral

dous

  1. two (2)

Descendants

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdo(w)ʃ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdoʃ/

  • Hyphenation: dous

Numeral

dous (feminine duas)

  1. Dated form of dois.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.