dose

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See also: Dose, dosé, dôse, dōse, dosë, and döse

English

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -əʊs

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  2. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
    • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
      Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
  3. (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
  4. A venereal infection.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 382:
      It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
Related terms
Translations

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To administer a dose to.
  2. To prescribe a dose.
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. Archaic form of doze.
    • 1839, Benjamin Abbott, Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott
      Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]

Verb

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  1. Archaic form of doze.
    • 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away And Long Ago:
      It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside […]

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

dose

  1. plural of doos

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish doce, from Old Spanish doze, dodze, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dose

  1. twelve

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dose.

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. proportion
  2. dose
Related terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: doz

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dose

  1. first-person singular present indicative of doser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of doser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doser
  5. second-person singular imperative of doser

Further reading

Italian

Noun

dose f (plural dosi)

  1. dose
  2. quantity, amount, measure
  3. deal (great-good) (gran dose-buona dose)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis)

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural doser, definite plural dosene)

  1. a dose, dosage

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis)

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural dosar, definite plural dosane)

  1. a dose, dosage

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Noun

dose

  1. locative singular of dosa
  2. accusative plural of dosa

Portuguese

Noun

dose f (plural s)

  1. dose (measured portion of medicine)
  2. (Portugal) portion (of a meal / food)
    Uma meia dose de sardinhas assadas.
    Half a portion of grilled sardines.
  3. (informal) fix (a single dose of an addictive drug)

Synonyms

Tagalog

Tagalog cardinal numbers
 <  11 12 13  > 
    Cardinal : dose
    Ordinal : ika-dose

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce

Numeral

dose

  1. twelve
    Synonym: labindalawa
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