• do's

• IPA^(key):/duːz/

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• Rhymes:-uːz

dos

1. plural ofdo
   • 1916,Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, inJust David‎^[2]:

     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 ofdo
   • 2020, Jennifer Snodgrass,Teaching Music Theory, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page212:

     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.

• ods,sod,OD's,ODS,dso,OS&D,SOD,OSD,ODs,SDO,SoD,DSO

FromLatinduos, accusative ofduo.

dos

1. two

FromProto-Nuristani*daca, fromProto-Indo-Iranian*dáća, fromProto-Indo-European*déḱm̥.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdos/

dos(Sanu)^[1]

1. ten

FromLatinduōs, accusative form ofduo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdos/[ˈd̪os]

dos (indeclinable)

1. two

Borrowed fromSpanishdos.

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

dos (Basahan spellingᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym:duwa

Inherited fromLatinduōs, accusative form ofduo(“two”), fromProto-Italic*duō, fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁. CompareOccitandos,Frenchdeux,Spanishdos.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈdos]
• Rhymes:-os

dos m (femininedues)

1. (cardinal number)two

• Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, exceptun/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 asla una i trenta (1:30) orles dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine nounhora has been elided.

• dos punts
• sabràs dos i dos quants fan
• tocar el dos

dos m (pluraldosos)

1. two
2. (castells)torre
3. (castells) One of a pair ofcastellers in thepom de dalt, who form the third-highest level of thecastell

• (originally, Italianate)IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈdɔs]
• (more commonly)IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈdos]

dos

1. plural ofdo(“do(note of the musical scale)”)

Inherited fromOld Catalandos, fromVulgar Latindossum, fromLatindorsum(“back”). Comparedors, a borrowed doublet.

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈdɔs]

dos m (pluraldossos)

1. Archaic form ofdors.

• tocar el dos

• “dos” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dos”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “dos” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dos” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Contraction ofdones, fromProto-Celtic*to-ageti. Cognate withBretondont andWelshdod.

• IPA^(key):/dɔːz/

dos (irregular)

1. tocome,arrive

Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchdos(“back”).

• IPA^(key):/dɔs/

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• Hyphenation:dos
• Rhymes:-ɔs

dos m (pluraldossen,diminutivedosje n)

1. garb,clothing, especially extravagant or unusual clothes
2. pelt,fur
3. patch ofhair, especially one'sheadhair

Inherited fromLatinduōs (accusative ofduo). Compare toAsturiandos.

dos

1. two

• dus(Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

FromOld Galician-Portuguesedos, equivalent tode(“of”) +‎os(masculine plural definite article).

dos m pl (singulardo,feminineda,feminine pluraldas)

1. (Mañegu)ofthe
   • 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 pequenudos tres, formaba parti, con términus de Vilamel i Trevellu, da pruvincia de Salamanca hasta o anu 1833[…]

     This San Martinese locality, the smallestof 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 (web)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published2022,→ISBN

Inherited fromOld Frenchdos, fromLatindorsum (throughVulgar Latindossum). CompareRomanschdies,Catalandors,Italiandosso, andRomaniandos.

• IPA^(key):/do/

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dos m (pluraldos)

1. (anatomy)back(of a person)
2. (in theplural)backs(of persons)(clarification of this definition is needed)
3. (swimming)backstroke
4. spine (of a book)

• tranchant

• dorsal

• “dos”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

From contraction of prepositionde(“of, from”) + masculine plural definite articleos(“the”). Akin to Portuguesedos (de +os).

• IPA^(key):/d̪ʊːs̺/

dos m pl (masculinedo,feminineda,feminine pluraldas)

1. ofthe;from the

• “dos”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dos”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dos”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dos”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed fromSpanishdos.

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

dos

1. two

   Synonym:dua

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/ˈdɔs/[ˈdɔs]
• Syllabification:dos

dos

1. (proscribed)Alternative form ofdus

dos

1. (proscribed)Alternative form ofdus

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

FromOld Irishdoss(“bush, thicket, tree”).

dos m (genitive singulardois,nominative pluraldosanna)

1. tuft

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dos”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dos”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dos”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “dos”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025

dos m (genitive singulardosa)

1. Alternative form ofgus(“force, vigor”)

FromPortuguesedois.

dos

1. two (2)

FromPortuguesedois, fromLatinduo.

dos

1. two

Inherited fromOld Spanishdos(“two”), fromLatinduōs, accusative ofduo.

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dos (Latin spelling,Hebrew spellingדוס)^[1]

1. two[ca. 1510^[2]]
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano,Por el plazer de kontar‎^[4],page417:

     “No… aspera…tengo aínda sesh… sinko…tres…dos… mezes para arivar a sesenta anyos. No mires ke tengo los kaveyos blankos!”

     “No… wait… I still have six… five… three…two… months before I am sixty years old. Don’t look[at me like] I have grey hair!”

   • 2018 September 26, Silvyo Ovadya, “Sovre la ekspozisyon “Contemporary İstanbul””, inShalom‎^[5]:

     De vez en kuando demandash si aydos Estanboles diferentes.

     Now and then you ask if there aretwo different Istanbuls.

FromProto-Italic*dōtis, fromProto-Indo-European*déh₃tis, from*deh₃-(“give”).^[1]Doublet ofdosis. Cognate withAncient Greekδόσις(dósis),Sanskritदिति(díti).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈdoːs/,[ˈd̪oːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈdos/,[ˈd̪ɔs]

dōs f (genitivedōtis);third declension

1. dowry
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti5.319–320:

     ‘saepe mihi Zephyrus ‘dōtēs corrumpere nōlī
     ipsa tuās’ dīxit:dōs mihi vīlis erat.’

     “Often Zephyrus said to me, ‘Don’t destroy your owndowry.’ Mydowry 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”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dos”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dos inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a dowry to one's daughter:dotem filiae dare
    
• “dos”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dos”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

dos

1. third-personsingular/pluralfutureindicative ofdot

FromEnglishdose.

dos (Jawi spellingدوس,pluraldos-dos)

1. (except Indonesia)dose

• dosis(Indonesia)

FromDutchdoos, fromMiddle Dutchdose (since 1361), probably fromLatindosis(“the small box in which a dose of medication was given”).

dos (pluraldos-dos)

1. (Indonesia)carton,cardboard box

• dus(Indonesia)

• “dos” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key):/doːs/

dos

1. second-personsingularimperative ofmynet

FromOld Frenchdos, fromVulgar Latindossum, fromLatindorsum.

dos m (pluraldos)

1. (Jersey,anatomy)back(of a person)

dōs

1. locativesingular ofdōt

FromLatinduōs, accusative form ofduo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdus/

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• Hyphenation:dos

dos m (femininedoas)

1. two

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006)Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[7], 2 edition,→ISBN, page360.

FromVulgar Latindossum, fromLatindorsum.

dosoblique singular, m (oblique pluraldos,nominative singulardos,nominative pluraldos)

1. (anatomy)back

• French:dos
• Norman:dos(Jersey)
• Walloon:dos

FromLatinduos, accusative ofduo.

dos

1. two (2)

• Occitan:dos

• II(representation in Roman numerals)

FromLatinduō.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdos/

dos m (femeninedúas)

1. two

• Spanish:dos

FromPortuguesedois andSpanishdos andKabuverdianudos.

dos

1. two (2)

• d'os(dated)

dos m pl

2. Contraction ofdeos(“of/from the(masculine plural)”):masculineplural ofdo

   dos Santos

   of the Saints

For quotations using this term, seeCitations:do.

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

Inherited fromVulgar Latindossum, fromLatindorsum. CompareFrenchdos andRomanschdies.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdos/
• Rhymes:-os

dos n (pluraldosuri)

1. back

   Synonym:spate

2. bottom,behind,buttocks

   Synonym:fund

3. reverse
4. backside,rear
5. tails(on a coin)

Inherited fromOld Spanishdos, fromLatinduōs, fromProto-Italic*duō, fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁. Cognates includeAncient Greekδύο(dúo),Old Englishtwa (Englishtwo), Persianدو.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdos/[ˈd̪os]

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• Rhymes:-os
• Syllabification:dos

dos

1. two

dos m pl

1. plural ofdo

• “dos”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• IPA^(key):/duːs/

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dos c

1. dose(of a pharmaceutical or drug)

• dos in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed fromSpanishdos(“two”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈdos/[ˈd̪os]
• Rhymes:-os
• Syllabification:dos

dos (Baybayin spellingᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym:dalawa

   • 2017, Curtis McFarland, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,Diksyunaryong Monolingwal sa Filipino: (Monolingual Dictionary in Filipino)‎^[8]:

     Angdos na bilang ay suwerte para sa kanya.

     The numbertwo is lucky for him.

dos (Baybayin spellingᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. (card games)two(card)

• “dos”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

FromOld Frenchdos, fromVulgar Latin*dossum, fromLatindorsum.

• IPA^(key):/dɔ/

dos m

1. (anatomy)back

• IPA^(key):/doːs/
• Rhymes:-oːs

Borrowed fromEnglishdose.

dos f (pluraldosys)

1. (medicine)dose

   Synonyms:dogn,mesur

2. share,portion

   Synonym:cyfran

dos m

1. (rare except in derived terms)drip,drop

   Synonyms:dafn,defnyn,diferyn

• diddos(“watertight”)
• dosog(“drippy”)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

dos

1. (North Wales)second-personsingularimperative ofmynd

   Synonym:(South Wales)cer

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dos”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

FromProto-Hmong*ɢləŋᴮ(“vegetables in the genusAllium”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):/dɒ˩/

dos(classifier:lub)

1. (small)onion,leek

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979)White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[9], SEAP Publications,→ISBN.

dos

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