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Etymology

Clipping of English Dupaningan Agta with o as a placeholder.

Symbol

duo

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dupaningan Agta.

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English

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From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (two), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of two, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.

Pronunciation

English numbers (edit)
 ←  1 2 3   [a], [b]
    Cardinal: two
    Ordinal: second
    Abbreviated ordinal: 2nd
    Latinate ordinal: secondary
    Reverse order ordinal: second to last, second from last, last but one
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate
    Adverbial: two times, twice
    Multiplier: twofold
    Latinate multiplier: double
    Distributive: doubly
    Germanic collective: pair, twosome
    Collective of n parts: doublet, couple, couplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: dyad
    Metric collective prefix: double-
    Greek collective prefix: di-, duo-
    Latinate collective prefix: bi-
    Fractional: half
    Metric fractional prefix: demi-
    Latinate fractional prefix: semi-
    Greek fractional prefix: hemi-
    Elemental: twin, doublet
    Greek prefix: deutero-
    Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet
    Number of years: biennium

Noun

duo (plural duos)

  1. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
  2. Any pair of people.
  3. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
  4. A meal with two paired components.
    The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
  5. A song in two parts; a duet.
    • 2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music:
      I noticed early on, in playing a duo with a violinist, that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.

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Central Dusun

Central Dusun numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: duo
    Ordinal: koduo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa. Cognate with Coastal Kadazan duvo.

Numeral

duo

  1. two

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduo]
  • Hyphenation: duo

Noun

duo n

  1. duet
    Synonym: duet

Declension

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Etymology

From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (two).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdy(ʋ)oː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: duo

Noun

duo n (plural duo's, diminutive duootje n)

  1. twosome

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Esperanto

Etymology

From du + -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈduo/
  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: du‧o

Noun

duo (accusative singular duon, plural duoj, accusative plural duojn)

  1. twosome, pair, couple
    Synonyms: duopo, paro
  2. the digit or figure two

See also

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)
aso duo trio kvaro kvino seso sepo
oko naŭo deko fanto, bubo damo reĝo ĵokero
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Finnish

Etymology

< Italian duo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu(ː)o/, [ˈdu(ː)o̞]
  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Syllabification(key): duo
  • Hyphenation(key): duo

Noun

duo

  1. duo (twosome of musicians performing together)
  2. synonym of kaksikko (twosome, pair) (often with a modifier)
    Kokkiduo Erkki ja Klaara ovat kumppaneita niin keittiössä kuin elämässään.
    The chef duo Eric and Clara are partners in the kitchen as well as in their lives.

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.

Pronunciation

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

  1. duo (combination of two things)
  2. (music) duet (a musical composition for two performers)

Descendants

  • Romanian: duo

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Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duo (two).

Numeral

duo

  1. two

Italian

Etymology

From Latin duo (two).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.o/
  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: dù‧o

Numeral

duo (invariable)

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of due

Noun

duo m (invariable)

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of due
  2. duo
    Synonym: duetto
  3. (music) duet
    Synonym: duetto

Descendants

  • English: duo
  • Finnish: duo
  • French: duo
    • Romanian: duo
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: duo
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: duo
  • Polish: duo
  • Portuguese: duo
  • Swedish: duo

Further reading

  • Prose della volgar lingua, 3.II

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Latin

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Alternative forms

  • Symbol: II

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (which was inflected as a dual). Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Old Church Slavonic дъва (dŭva), and Old English twā (whence English two).

Pronunciation

Numeral

duo (feminine duae, neuter duo); numeral, plural only

  1. two; 2
    • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.565–8:hypotactic.com
      AMPHITRUŌ: Tūn mē, verberō, audēs erum lūdificārī?
      Tūne id dīcere audēs, quod nēmō umquam homō antehāc
      vīdit nec potest fīerī, tempore ūnō
      homō īdem duōbus locīs ut simul sit?
      AMPHITRUO: You scoundrel; you dare to play tricks on me?
      You dare to claim something which no man
      has seen before, as it cannot be done, that one
      man can be in two places at the same time?
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 45:
      Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.
      He said that two things had abashed him.
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Zacharias.4.12:
      et respondi secundo et dixi ad eum quid sunt duae spicae olivarum quae sunt iuxta duo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro
      And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
    • 1500, Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia:
      Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos.
      "Not even Hercules fights against two."

Usage notes

Declension

Numeral, plural only.

Derived terms

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References

  • duo” in volume 5, part 1, column 2241, line 55 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • duo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • duo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "duo", 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)
  • duo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to divide into two factions: in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
    • to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
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Mandarin

Romanization

duo (duo5 / duo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄨㄛ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𦕰

duo

  1. nonstandard spelling of duō
  2. nonstandard spelling of duó
  3. nonstandard spelling of duǒ
  4. nonstandard spelling of duò

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Minangkabau

Minangkabau cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : duo
    Ordinal : kaduo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa. False cognate of Latin duo.

Numeral

duo.

  1. two

Further reading

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*duSa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian duo.

Noun

duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoer, definite plural duoene)

  1. a duo (a group of two entertainers, or a piece of music for two musical instruments (also known as a duet))

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian duo.

Noun

duo m (definite singular duoen, indefinite plural duoar, definite plural duoane)

  1. a duo (as above)

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo, from Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of dwa (two).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.ɔ/
  • Rhymes: -uɔ
  • Syllabification: du‧o

Noun

duo n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) duo (group of two musicians)
    Synonym: duet
  2. (music) duo (piece of music written for two musicians)
    Synonym: duet
  3. duo (group of two people or things)
    Synonym: duet

Further reading

  • duo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

  1. duo
    Synonym: dupla

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French duo.

Noun

duo n (plural duouri)

  1. duet

Declension

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Swedish

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Etymology

From Italian duo.

Noun

duo c

  1. a duo

Declension

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Welsh

Etymology

du (black) + -o

Pronunciation

Verb

duo (first-person singular present duaf)

  1. (intransitive)
    1. to become black, to blacken (also figuratively)
    2. to grow dark
      Synonym: nosi
  2. (transitive) to make black, to blacken (also figuratively)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “duo”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “duo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

Numeral

duo

  1. two

Yoruba

Etymology

Contraction of dúró.

Pronunciation

Verb

dúó

  1. (Ondo) Ondo form of dúró (to wait)

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