FromFrenchduo orItalianduo, fromLatinduo(“two”), fromProto-Italic*duō, fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁.Doublet oftwo, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈdjuː.əʊ/,/ˈd͡ʒuː.əʊ/

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• (General American,Canada)IPA^(key):/ˈdu.oʊ/,/ˈdju.oʊ/
• Rhymes:-uːəʊ

duo (pluralduos)

1. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who performmusic together.
2. Any pair of people.
3. Anycocktail consisting of aspirit and aliqueur.
4. Ameal with two paired components.

   Theduo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.

5. Asong in two parts; aduet.
   • 2009, Roger T. Dean,The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music:

     I noticed early on, in playing aduo 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.

• (pair of two people):couple,pair,twosome; see alsoThesaurus:duo

• duet

• trio
• quartet
• Thesaurus:number

• udo,oud,ODU

• duwo

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*duha, fromProto-Austronesian*duSa. Cognate withCoastal Kadazanduvo.

duo

1. two

• IPA^(key):[ˈduo]
• Hyphenation:duo

duo n

1. duet

   Synonym:duet

• “duo”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “duo”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

FromFrenchduo orItalianduo, fromLatinduo(“two”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈdy(ʋ)oː/

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• Hyphenation:duo

duo n (pluralduo's,diminutiveduootje n)

1. twosome

• tweetal

• duet

• oud

Fromdu +‎-o.

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• IPA^(key):/ˈduo/
• Rhymes:-uo
• Hyphenation: du‧o

duo (accusative singularduon,pluralduoj,accusative pluralduojn)

1. twosome,pair,couple

   Synonyms:duopo,paro

2. the digit or figuretwo

<Italianduo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdu(ː)o/,[ˈdu(ː)o̞]
• Rhymes:-uo
• Syllabification^(key):duo
• Hyphenation^(key):duo

duo

1. duo(twosome of musicians performing together)
2. Synonym ofkaksikko(“twosome, pair”)(often with amodifier)

   Kokkiduo Erkki ja Klaara ovat kumppaneita niin keittiössä kuin elämässään.

   The chefduo Eric and Clara are partners in the kitchen as well as in their lives.

• “duo”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-02

Borrowed fromItalianduo.Doublet ofdeux.

• IPA^(key):/dɥo/

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duo m (pluralduos)

1. duo (combination of two things)
2. (music)duet (a musical composition for two performers)

• → Romanian:duo

• solo,trio

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

• d’où

Borrowed fromLatinduo(“two”).

duo

1. two

FromLatinduo(“two”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈdu.o/
• Rhymes:-uo
• Hyphenation:dù‧o

duo (invariable)

1. (obsolete)Alternative form ofdue

duo m (invariable)

1. (obsolete)Alternative form ofdue
2. duo

   Synonym:duetto

3. (music)duet

   Synonym:duetto

• due

• → English:duo
• → Finnish:duo
• → French:duo
  • → Romanian:duo
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål:duo
  • Norwegian Nynorsk:duo
• → Polish:duo
• → Portuguese:duo
• → Swedish:duo

• Prose della volgar lingua[2], 3.II

• udo-

• Symbol:II

FromProto-Italic*duō, fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁ (which was inflected as a dual). Cognates includeAncient Greekδύο(dúo),Sanskritद्व(dvá),Old Church Slavonicдъва(dŭva), andOld Englishtwā (whenceEnglishtwo).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):[ˈdu.ɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):[ˈd̪uː.o]

duo (feminineduae,neuterduo);numeral, plural only

1. two; 2
   • c. 190BCE – 185BCE,Plautus,Amphitryon2.1.565–8:hypotactic.com

     AMPHITRUŌ: Tūn mē, verberō, audēs erum lūdificārī?
     Tūne id dīcere audēs, quod nēmō umquam homō antehāc
     vīdit nec potest fīerī, tempore ūnō
     homō īdemduōbus locīs ut simul sit?

     AMPHITRUO: You scoundrel; you dare to play tricks on me?
     You dare to claim something which no man
     has seen before, as it cannot be done, that one
     man can be intwo places at the same time?

   • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita45:

     Dixitduas res ei rubori fuisse.

     He said thattwo things had abashed him.

   • 405CE,Jerome,Vulgate Zacharias.4.12:

     et respondi secundo et dixi ad eum quid suntduae spicae olivarum quae sunt iuxtaduo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro

     And I answered again, and said unto him, What be thesetwo olive branches which through thetwo golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

   • 1500,Desiderius Erasmus,Adagia:

     Ne Hercules quidem adversusduos.

     "Not even Hercules fights againsttwo."

• SeeAppendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Numeral, plural only.

• duābus sellīs sedeō

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

• “duo” in volume 5, part 1, column 2241, line 55 in theThesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “duo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “duo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "duo", 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)
• duo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to divide into two factions:in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
    
  • to form two legions:efficere duas legiones
    

duo (duo⁵ /duo⁰,Zhuyin˙ㄉㄨㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of𦕰

duo

1. Nonstandard spelling ofduō.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofduó.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofduǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling ofduò.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

FromProto-Malayic*dua, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*duha, fromProto-Austronesian*duSa.False cognate ofLatinduo.

duo.

1. two

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*duSa”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI

FromItalianduo.

duo m (definite singularduoen,indefinite pluralduoer,definite pluralduoene)

1. aduo (a group of two entertainers, or a piece of music for two musical instruments (also known as a duet))

FromItalianduo.

duo m (definite singularduoen,indefinite pluralduoar,definite pluralduoane)

1. aduo (as above)

Borrowed fromItalianduo, fromLatinduo, fromProto-Italic*duō, fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁.Doublet ofdwa(“two”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈdu.ɔ/
• Rhymes:-uɔ
• Syllabification:du‧o

duo n (indeclinable)

1. (music)duo(group of two musicians)

   Synonym:duet

2. (music)duo(piece of music written for two musicians)

   Synonym:duet

3. duo(group of two people or things)

   Synonym:duet

• duo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed fromItalianduo.

duo m (pluralduos)

1. duo

   Synonym:dupla

Borrowed fromFrenchduo.

duo n (pluralduouri)

1. duet

FromItalianduo.

duo c

1. aduo

• bisittare
• duett
• följeslagare
• parhäst
• radarpar
• vapendragare

• duo inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• duo inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• duo inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

du(“black”) +‎-o

• (North Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈdɨː.ɔ/
• (South Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈdiː.ɔ/

duo (first-person singular presentduaf)

1. (intransitive)
   1. to becomeblack, toblacken(also figuratively)
   2. to growdark

      Synonym:nosi

2. (transitive) to makeblack, toblacken(also figuratively)

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

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*duha, fromProto-Austronesian*duSa.

duo

1. two

Contraction ofdúró.

• IPA^(key):/dú.ó/

dúó

1. (Ondo)Ondo form ofdúró(“to wait”)