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dulce

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English

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Etymology 1

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Alteration of earlier douce, from Middle English douce, from Old French douz, douce. Doublet of dolce, douce, and doux.

Adjective

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dulce (comparative more dulce, superlative most dulce)

  1. (obsolete) sweet
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Noun

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dulce (countable and uncountable, plural dulces)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Sweetness.
  2. (obsolete, countable) Something sweet; a sweetmeat.
    • 1871, Charles Washburn, The History of Paraguay
      The guava […] is seldom eaten except when preserved with sirup or sugar. In this form it is one of the favorite dulces of the country.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English doucen, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

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dulce (third-person singular simple present dulces, present participle dulcing, simple past and past participle dulced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make sweet; to soothe.

Etymology 3

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Alteration of dulse.

Noun

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dulce (countable and uncountable, plural dulces)

  1. Alternative form of dulse.
  2. seaweed; kelp

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dulce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Aragonese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin dulcis.

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Adjective

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dulce (feminine dulza, masculine plural dulces, feminine plural dulzas)

  1. sweet

References

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  • “dulce”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdulθe/ [ˈd̪ul̟.θe]
  • Rhymes: -ulθe
  • Syllabification: dul‧ce

Adjective

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dulce (epicene, plural dulces)

  1. sweet
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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dulce

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dulcis

Adverb

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dulce (comparative dulcius, superlative dulcissimē, adjective dulcis)

  1. synonym of dulciter: sweetly, agreeably, delightfully
    • c. 70 BCE, Gaius Valerius Catullus, Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829 Carmina 51:
      Ille mi par esse deo videtur, / ille, si fas est, superare divos, / qui sedens adversus identidem te / spectat et audit // dulce ridentem, misero quod omnes / eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, / Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi / <vocis in ore;> // lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus / flamma demanat, sonitu suopte / tintinant aures, gemina teguntur / lumina nocte.
      He seems to me to be equal to a god, / he, if it is permissible, / seems to surpass the gods, / who sitting opposite again and again / watches and hears you // sweetly laughing, which rips out all senses / from miserable me: for at the same moment I look upon you, / Lesbia, nothing is left for me / <of my voice in my mouth;> // But my tongue grows / thick, a thin flame / runs down beneath my limbs, with their own sound / my ears ring, my lights (eyes) / are covered by twin night.
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.1:
      tanta mentis perturbatione sedata, dulce conquievit.
      with so great a disturbance of mind having been calmed, she rested pleasantly.

References

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  • “dulce”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dulce”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dulce”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin dulcem. Compare Aromanian dultsi.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdult͡ʃe/
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Adjective

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dulce m or f or n (plural dulci)

  1. sweet
    Antonym: amar

Declension

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Declension of dulce
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite dulce dulce dulci dulci
definite dulcele dulcea dulcii dulcile
genitive-
dative 		indefinite dulce dulci dulci dulci
definite dulcelui dulcii dulcilor dulcilor

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dulkwis
Latin dulcem
Spanish dulce

    Inherited from Latin dulcem (“sweet”). Also found in Old Spanish with the forms duz, duce (compare Portuguese doce).[1] Cognate with English dulcet.

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    Adjective

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    dulce m or f (masculine and feminine plural dulces, superlative dulcísimo)

    1. sweet (having a pleasant taste, especially induced by sugar)
      Antonym: salado
      • 2004, Akira Yamaoka, translated by from English, Tender Sugar:
        Me salva la dulce azúcar, es la habitación que me confina
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    2. sweet (having a pleasant disposition)
    3. (of water) fresh (without salt)
      Antonym: salada

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    Noun

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    dulce m (plural dulces)

    1. candy, sweet
      Synonyms: caramelo, golosina, chuche (Spain)
    2. sweet food, dessert
      Synonym: postre
    3. thick jelly or fudge
      Synonyms: ate, manjar

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    Descendants

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    • → Bikol Central: dulse
    • → O'odham: lu꞉lsi

    References

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    1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “dulce”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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