dos

See also: DOS, DoS, dós, dōs, do's, -dos, d'os, and d'ô

English

Alternative forms

• do's

Pronunciation

In dos and don'ts:

• IPA^(key): /duːz/

In music:

• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊz/

Noun

dos

1. plural of do

Anagrams

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

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

Numeral

dos

1. two

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Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : segundu

Etymology

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

Numeral

dos (indeclinable)

1. two

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Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

Catalan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : segon     Multiplier : doble
Catalan Wikipedia article on Dos

dos m (feminine dues)

1. two

Usage notes

• 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.

Derived terms

• sabràs dos i dos quants fan

Noun

dos m (plural dosos)

1. two

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dos

1. plural of do

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dos m (plural dossos)

1. Archaic form of dors.

Derived terms

• tocar el dos

Further reading

• “dos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dos (“back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

Noun

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

Derived terms

• dossen
• haardos
• verendos

 

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Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dos, from de + os.

Preposition

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 […]

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French

Etymology

From Old French dos, from Latin dorsum (through a Vulgar Latin *dossum). Compare Romansch dies, Italian dosso, and Romanian dos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

dos m (plural dos)

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

Antonyms

• tranchant

Derived terms

• adosser
• dos crawlé
• dossard
• dossier
• endosser
• faire le gros dos

 

Related terms

• dorsal

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ʊs̺/

Contraction

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

1. of the; from the

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Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dos m (genitive singular dois, nominative plural dosanna)

1. tuft

Declension

Declension of dos

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative dos dosanna Vocative a dhois a dhosanna Genitive dois dosanna Dative dos dosanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an dos na dosanna Genitive an dois na ndosanna Dative leis an dos don dos leis na dosanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dos	dhos	ndos
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dos”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “dos”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Kabuverdianu

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos

Etymology

From Portuguese dois.

Numeral

dos

1. two (2)

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Kristang

Etymology

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

Numeral

dos

1. two

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Ladino

Etymology

From Latin duōs, accusative of duo.

Numeral

dos (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דוס)

1. two

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Cognate with Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis), Sanskrit दिति (díti).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dōs f (genitive dōtis); third declension

1. dowry
2. gift, endowment, talent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dōs	dōtēs
Genitive	dōtis	dōtum dōtium
Dative	dōtī	dōtibus
Accusative	dōtem	dōtēs
Ablative	dōte	dōtibus
Vocative	dōs	dōtēs

Derived terms

• dōtō

Descendants

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

References

• “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^[1], 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

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Latvian

Verb

dos

1. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular future indicative form of dot
2. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural future indicative form of dot

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Malay

Noun

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

1. dose

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Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːs/

Verb

dos

1. second-person singular imperative of mynet

Mutation

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	Aspirate
dos	ðos	nos	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

dos m (plural dos)

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

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Northern Sami

Determiner

dōs

1. locative singular of dōt

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

Numeral

dos m (feminine doas)

1. two

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dossum, from Latin dorsum.

Noun

dos oblique singular, m (oblique plural dos, nominative singular dos, nominative plural dos)

1. (anatomy) back

Descendants

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

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

Numeral

dos

1. two (2)

Descendants

• Catalan: dos
• Occitan: dos

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Papiamentu

Papiamentu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos

Etymology

From Portuguese dois and Spanish dos and Kabuverdianu dos.

Numeral

dos

1. two (2)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• d'os (dated)

Pronunciation

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

Contraction

dos

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

   dos Santos

   of the Saints

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:do.

See also

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

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -os

Noun

dos n (plural dosuri)

1. back

   Synonym: spate

2. bottom, behind, buttocks

   Synonym: fund

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

Declension

Declension of dos

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) dos	dosul	(niște) dosuri	dosurile
genitive/dative	(unui) dos	dosului	(unor) dosuri	dosurilor
vocative	dosule		dosurilor

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: segundo     Ordinal abbreviation: 2.º     Multiplier: doble     Collective: ambos     Fractional: medio, mitad
Spanish Wikipedia article on 2

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

dos

1. two

Derived terms

• cada dos por tres
• como dos y dos son cuatro
• como no hay dos
• como tres y dos son cinco
• dos puntos
• dos tiempos
• en dos
• la vida son dos días
• paso a dos
• sumar dos más dos

 

See also

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

dos c

1. dose (of medication)

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Tagalog

Tagalog cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : ika-dos

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dos/

Numeral

dos

1. two

   Synonym: dalawa

   • 2017, Curtis McFarland, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Diksyunaryong Monolingwal sa Filipino: (Monolingual Dictionary in Filipino)‎^[3]:

     Ang dos na bilang ay suwerte para sa kanya.

     The number two is lucky for him.

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Walloon

Etymology

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

Noun

dos m

1. (anatomy) back

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːs/

Verb

dos

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

Synonyms

• cer (South Wales)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dos	ddos	nos	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.