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

English

Etymology 1

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”). Doublet of doos.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /doʊs/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊs

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
    Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
  2. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced 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.
    Synonym: fill (as in have one's fill)
  4. (figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:
      “I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.”
    • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:
      The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.
    • 2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn't Dark Enough”, in TIME‎:
      People who don't get their daily dose of light at the right time of day can end up with worse health.
  5. (dated) A venereal infection.
    • 1972, Shel Silverstein, “Don't Give A Dose to the One You Love Most”:
      Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 382:
      It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
  6. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
    There's a dose going round.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Malay: dos
  • → Tamil: டோஸ் (ṭōs)
Translations

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
  2. To prescribe a dose.
  3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
    • 2016, Pamela Donovan, Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History, page 71:
      The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.
  4. (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.
    • 1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok:
      Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.
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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

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  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

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Afrikaans

Noun

dose

  1. plural of doos

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.se]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dóse (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve
    Synonym: kagduwa

Cebuano

Cebuano numbers (edit)
 ←  11 12 13  → 
    Cardinal: napúlog duhá
    Spanish cardinal: dose
    Ordinal: ikanapúlog duhá, ikapúlog duhá
    Adverbial: makanapúlog duhá
    Fractional: sikanapúlog duhá

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.s̪e]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dóse (Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve
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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. proportion
  2. dose
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dose

  1. inflection of doser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Ilocano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈdo.se]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dose

  1. twelve
    Synonym: sangapulo ket dua

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.ze/
  • Rhymes: -ɔze
  • Hyphenation: dò‧se

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 scripts
  • 𑀤𑁄𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • दोसे (Devanagari script)
  • দোসে (Bengali script)
  • දොසෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ဒေါသေ or ၻေႃသေ (Burmese script)
  • โทเส (Thai script)
  • ᨴᩮᩤᩈᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ໂທເສ (Lao script)
  • ទោសេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄘𑄮𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

dose

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

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

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

dose

  1. inflection of dosar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Tagalog

Tagalog numbers (edit)
 ←  11 12 13  → 
    Cardinal: labindalawa
    Spanish cardinal: dose
    Ordinal: ikalabindalawa, panlabindalawa
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-12, pang-12
    Adverbial: makalabindalawa
    Multiplier: labindalawang ibayo
    Distributive: tiglabindalawa, labindalawahan, labi-labindalawa
    Collective: dosena
    Restrictive: lalabindalawa
    Fractional: kalabindalawa, sangkalabindalawa, ikalabindalawa, saikalabindalawa
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 12

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce (“twelve”).

Pronunciation

Numeral

dose (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve
    Synonym: labindalawa

Further reading

  • “dose”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.

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