dous

See also: doûs

Breton

Adjective

dous

1. sweet

Galician

Galician cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dous     Ordinal : segundo
Galician Wikipedia article on dous

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dous, from Latin duōs. Cognate with Portuguese dois and Spanish dos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdows]

• Audio

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Numeral

dous m (feminine dúas)

1. two

Related terms

• dúas

References

• “dous” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “dous” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “dous” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “dous” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “dous” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo.

Numeral

dous

1. two

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin dulcem.

Adjective

dous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular douse)

1. soft (not hard)
2. (by extension) soft, tender

Derived terms

• dulcement

Descendants

• French: doux
  • → Luxembourgish: duuss
• Norman: doux
• → Middle English: douce, douse, dowce, dowse
  • English: douce
  • Scots: douce

Etymology 2

See deus.

Noun

dous m

1. Alternative form of deus (two)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Old Galician-Portuguese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dous

Etymology

Inherited from Latin duōs (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdows̺/

Numeral

dous (feminine duas)

1. two (2)

Descendants

• Galician: dous
• Portuguese: dois, dous (dated)

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "dous"

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin dulcis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duws/

Adjective

dous m (feminine singular dousa, masculine plural dous, feminine plural dousas)

1. soft (not hard)
2. (by extension) soft, tender, sweet

Derived terms

• dousamen

Descendants

• Occitan: doç

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dous, from Latin duōs (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w)s/ [ˈdo(ʊ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w)s/ [ˈdo(ʊ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w)ʃ/ [ˈdo(ʊ̯)ʃ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w)ʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w)ʃ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʃ/

• Hyphenation: dous

Numeral

dous (feminine duas)

1. Dated form of dois.