dosis

See also: Dosis and dösis

Afrikaans

Noun

dosis (plural dosisse)

1. dose

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Catalan

Noun

dosis

1. plural of dosi

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Dutch

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From 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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• Hyphenation: do‧sis

Noun

dosis f (plural doses or dosissen, diminutive dosisje n)

1. dose

Derived terms

• overdosis
• stralingsdosis

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Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish dosis.

Noun

dósis

1. dose, medicine

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Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔːs̬is]

Noun

dosis f (genitive dosis or doseōs or dosios); third declension

1. (Late Latin) dose

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dosis	dosēs doseis
Genitive	dosis doseōs dosios	dosium
Dative	dosī	dosibus
Accusative	dosim dosin dosem1	dosēs dosīs
Ablative	dosī dose1	dosibus
Vocative	dosis dosi	dosēs doseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

Descendants of dosis in other languages

• Catalan: dosi
• Dutch: doos
• English: dose
• Esperanto: dozo
• French: dose
• German: Dosis

• Hungarian: dózis
• Ido: dozo
• Italian: dose
• Portuguese: dose
• Spanish: dosis
• Swedish: dos

References

• dosis 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)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”).

Noun

dosis f (plural dosis)

1. dose