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Abbreviation of English Dogosé.

dos

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dogosé terms

• do's

• IPA^(key): /duːz/

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• Rhymes: -uːz

dos

1. plural of do
   • 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David‎^[2]:

     With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos."

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz

dos

1. (music) plural of do
   • 2020, Jennifer Snodgrass, Teaching Music Theory, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

     In functional harmonic progression, three “Dos” in a row within the Do-Ti test indicate chord changes that can only be this descending third pattern.

• ods, sod, OD's, ODS, dso, OS&D, SOD, OSD, ODs, SDO, SoD, DSO

dos

1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Semelfactive	dotsʼ (clench)	dotsʼ (clench)	dotsʼ (clench)	dotsʼ (clench)
Momentaneous			dotsʼ (clench)

Aragonese numbers ⁽⁾

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Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: segundo

Inherited from Latin duos (“two”, accusative). Cognates include Spanish dos and Catalan dos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. two

• Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés et al. (2021), Gramatica basica de l'aragonés, Zaragoza: University of Zaragoza Press, page 121
• Martínez Tur, Feliciano; Rodés Orquín, Francho (2022), “dos”, in Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán‎^[3], Zaragoza, Spain: Estudio de Filolochía Aragonesa, Edicions Dichitals de l’Academia de l’Aragonés, published April 2025, →ISSN, page 395

Ashkun cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos

Either inherited from Proto-Nuristani *daċa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ or borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit दश (dáśa).

dos (Sanu)^[1]

1. ten

Asturian numbers ⁽⁾

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Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: segundu

• dous (Western)

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/ [ˈd̪os]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos (indeclinable)

1. two

The femenine forms of dos are today restricted to Western dialects. In Central and Eastern they are obsolete or very archaic and aren't Standard.

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “dos”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “dos”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Catalan numbers ⁽⁾

	20
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Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: segon     Ordinal abbreviation: 2n     Multiplier: doble     Fractional: mig
Catalan Wikipedia article on 2

Inherited from Latin duōs, accusative form of duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Occitan dos, French deux, Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈdus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdos]
• Rhymes: -os

dos m

1. (cardinal number) two

• Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, except un/una (“1”), dos/dues (“2”), cents/centes (“100s”) and its compounds. When used as nouns, Catalan cardinal numbers are treated as masculine singular nouns in most contexts, but in expressions involving time such as la una i trenta (1:30) or les dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine noun hora has been elided.

• dos punts
• sabràs dos i dos quants fan
• tocar el dos

dos m (plural dosos)

1. two
2. (castells) torre
3. (castells) One of a pair of castellers in the pom de dalt, who form the third-highest level of the castell

• (originally, Italianate) IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈdo̞s]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdɔs]
• (more commonly) IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈdus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdos]

dos

1. plural of do (“do (note of the musical scale)”)

Inherited from Old Catalan dos, from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum (“back”). Compare dors, a borrowed doublet.

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈdo̞s]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdɔs]

dos m (plural dossos)

1. archaic form of dors

• tocar el dos

• “dos”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dos”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dos” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dos”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Central Bikol numbers ⁽⁾

	20[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: duwa, dos     Ordinal: ikaduwa, segundo

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/ [ˈd̪os]
• Hyphenation: dos

dos (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym: duwa

Chavacano numbers ⁽⁾

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  →
Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: aca-dos, ika-dos, segunda, segundo     Multiplier: doble     Collective: ambos

Inherited from Spanish dos (“two”).

dos

1. two

Contraction of dones, from Proto-Celtic *to-ageti. Cognate with Breton dont and Welsh dod.

• IPA^(key): /dɔːz/

dos (irregular)

1. to come, arrive

Borrowed from Middle French dos (“back”).

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

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• Hyphenation: dos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

dos m (plural dossen, diminutive dosje n)

1. garb, clothing, especially extravagant or unusual clothes
2. pelt, fur
3. patch of hair, especially one's headhair

Inherited from Latin duōs (accusative of duo). Compare to Asturian dos.

dos

1. two

• dus (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dos. By surface analysis, de (“of”) + os (masculine plural definite article).

dos m pl (singular do, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. (Mañegu) of the
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     Esti términu Mañegu, o mais pequenu dos tres, formaba parti, con términus de Vilamel i Trevellu, da pruvincia de Salamanca hasta o anu 1833 […]

     This San Martinese locality, the smallest of the three, formed, along with the Vilamen and Trevejo localities, the Salamanca province until the year 1833 […]

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 30

Inherited from Old French dos, from Latin dorsum (through Vulgar Latin dossum). Compare Romansh dies, Catalan dors, Italian dosso, and Romanian dos.

• IPA^(key): /do/

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• Rhymes: -o

dos m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) back (of a person)
2. (swimming) backstroke
3. spine (of a book)

• tranchant

• dorsal

• Haitian Creole: do
• ⇒ Mauritian Creole: ledo
• Réunion Creole French: do

• “dos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine plural definite article os (“the”). Akin to Portuguese dos (de + os).

• IPA^(key): /d̪ʊːs̺/

dos m pl (masculine do, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. of the; from the

• “dos”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “dos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “dos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “dos”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Spanish dos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/ [ˈdos]
• Hyphenation: dos

dos

1. two

   Synonym: dua

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔs/ [ˈdɔs]
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. (proscribed) alternative form of dus

dos

1. (proscribed) alternative form of dus

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɔsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɞsˠ/

From Old Irish doss (“bush, thicket, tree”).

dos m (genitive singular dois, nominative plural dosanna)

1. tuft

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “dos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “dos”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “dos”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

dos m (genitive singular dosa, uncountable)

1. alternative form of gus (“force, vigor”)

Kabuverdianu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos

Derived from Portuguese dois.

dos

1. two (2)

Inherited from Portuguese dois, from Latin duo.

dos

1. two

Ladino cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : segundo

Inherited from Old Spanish dos (“two”), from Latin duōs, accusative of duo.

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dos (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דוס)^[1]

1. two [ca. 1510^[2]]
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[4], page 417:

     “No… aspera…tengo aínda sesh… sinko…tres…dos… mezes para arivar a sesenta anyos. No mires ke tengo los kaveyos blankos!”

     “No… wait… I still have six… five… three… two… months before I am sixty years old. Don’t look [at me like] I have grey hair!”

   • 2018 September 26, Silvyo Ovadya, “Sovre la ekspozisyon “Contemporary İstanbul””, in Shalom‎^[5], archived from the original on 22 March 2026:

     De vez en kuando demandash si ay dos Estanboles diferentes.

     Now and then you ask if there are two different Istanbuls.

From Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis, from *deh₃- (“give”).^[1] Doublet of dosis. Cognate with Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis), Sanskrit दिति (díti).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdoːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɔs]

dōs f (genitive dōtis); third declension

1. dowry
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 99–101:

     SĪMŌ: Hāc fāmā impulsus, Chremēs / ultrō ad mē vēnit, ūnicam gnātam suam / cum dōte summā fīliō uxōrem ut daret.

     SIMO: Inspired by [my son’s good] reputation, Chremes came to me of his own accord, so that he could offer his only daughter — with a huge dowry — as a bride to my son.

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.319–320:

     ‘saepe mihi Zephyrus ‘dōtēs corrumpere nōlī
     ipsa tuās’ dīxit: dōs mihi vīlis erat.’

     “Often Zephyrus said to me, ‘Don’t destroy your own dowry.’ My dowry was of no value to me.”
     (Flora (mythology) stopped caring for flowers when the early Romans neglected to worship her deity; Zephyrus, the west wind of spring, was her consort.)

2. gift, endowment, talent

Third-declension noun.

• dōtālis
• dōtō

• “dos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “dos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a dowry to one's daughter: dotem filiae dare
    
• “dos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dos”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

dos

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of dot

From English dose.

dos (Jawi spelling دوس, plural dos-dos)

1. (except Indonesia) dose

• dosis (Indonesia)

From Dutch doos, from Middle Dutch dose (since 1361), probably from Latin dosis (“the small box in which a dose of medication was given”).

dos (plural dos-dos)

1. (Indonesia) carton, cardboard box

• dus (Indonesia)

• "dos" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "dos" at PRPM first version)

dos

1. plural of do (“doe”)

• IPA^(key): /doːs/

dos

1. second-person singular imperative of mynet

From Old French dos, from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum.

dos m (plural dos)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) back (of a person)

dōs

1. locative singular of dōt

Occitan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : dosen

From Latin duōs, accusative form of duo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdus/

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• Hyphenation: dos

dos m (feminine doas)

1. two

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[7], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 360

From Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum.

dos oblique singular, m (oblique plural dos, nominative singular dos, nominative plural dos)

1. (anatomy) back

• French: dos
• Norman: dos (Jersey)
• Walloon: dos

From Latin duos, accusative of duo.

dos

1. two (2)

• Occitan: dos

Old Spanish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dos     Ordinal : segundo

• II (representation in Roman numerals)

From Latin duō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/

dos m (feminine duas)

1. two

• Spanish: dos

Papiamentu numbers ⁽⁾

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  →
Cardinal: dos     Fractional: mitar

Derived from Portuguese dois, Spanish dos, and Kabuverdianu dos.

dos

1. two (2)

• d'os (dated)

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dos m pl

2. contraction of de +‎ os, literally “of/from the (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of do

   dos Santos

   of the Saints

For quotations using this term, see Citations:do.

• do (singular form)
• das (feminine form)
• da (singular feminine form)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum. This is the original and now dated Romanian word for the back - mainly replaced in common usage by the (originally popular, now standard language) alternative spate (“back”). Compare French dos and Romansh dies.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/
• Rhymes: -os

dos n (plural dosuri)

1. back

   Synonym: spate

2. bottom, behind, buttocks

   Synonym: fund

3. reverse
4. backside, rear
5. tails (on a coin)

From Old Irish doss (“bush, thicket, tree”).

dos m (genitive singular duis, nominative plural duis or dosan)

1. bush, thicket
2. cluster, bushy collection of things
3. tuft, plume, bow, cockade
4. (music) drone (of a bagpipe)
5. (music) hunting horn
6. bush, pubic hair

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “dos”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Spanish numbers ⁽⁾

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Cardinal: dos     Ordinal: segundo     Ordinal abbreviation: 2.º     Multiplier: doble     Collective: ambos     Fractional: medio, mitad
Spanish Wikipedia article on 2

Inherited from Old Spanish dos, from Latin duōs, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Old English twa (English two), Persian دو.

PIE word
*dwóh₁

• IPA^(key): /ˈdos/ [ˈd̪os]

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• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos

1. two
   • 2022 June 30, Ángela Reyes Haczek, “Dejar el hogar y empezar el viaje: quiénes son los que migran a EE.UU. y por qué lo hacen”, in CNN en Español‎^[8], archived from the original on 4 February 2026:

     De acuerdo a la ONG Ayuda en Acción, en Centroamérica una de cada dos mujeres migra “por miedo a perder la vida o a sufrir daños físicos y emocionales en sus comunidades de origen”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

dos m (plural doses)

1. (uncountable, often definite, idiomatic, childish, colloquial) dung, excrement

dos m pl

1. plural of do

• “dos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /duːs/

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dos c

1. dose (of a pharmaceutical or drug)

• “dos”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

Tagalog numbers ⁽⁾

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Cardinal: dalawa     Spanish cardinal: dos     Ordinal: ikalawa, pangalawa     Spanish ordinal: segundo, segunda     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-2, pang-2     Adverbial: makalawa, makadalawa     Multiplier: doble, dalawang ibayo     Distributive: tigdalawa, dalawahan, dala-dalawa     Restrictive: dadalawa     Fractional: kalahati
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 2

Borrowed from Spanish dos (“two”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdos/ [ˈd̪os]

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• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: dos

dos (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. two

   Synonym: dalawa

   • 2017, Curtis McFarland, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Diksyunaryong Monolingwal sa Filipino: (Monolingual Dictionary in Filipino)‎^[9]:

     Ang dos na bilang ay suwerte para sa kanya.

     The number two is lucky for him.

dos (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. (card games) two (card)

• “dos”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Related to Persian دازه (“awn”).

dos

1. awn

From Old French dos, from Vulgar Latin *dossum, from Latin dorsum.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ/

dos m

1. (anatomy) back

• IPA^(key): /doːs/
• Rhymes: -oːs

Borrowed from English dose.

dos f (plural dosys)

1. (medicine) dose

   Synonyms: dogn, mesur

2. share, portion

   Synonym: cyfran

• dosio (“to dose”)

dos m

1. (rare except in derived terms) drip, drop

   Synonyms: dafn, defnyn, diferyn

• diddos (“watertight”)
• dosog (“drippy”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dos

1. (North Wales) second-person singular imperative of mynd

   Synonym: (South Wales) cer

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

From Proto-Hmongic *ɢləŋᴮ (“vegetables in the genus Allium”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dɒ˩/

dos (classifier lub)

1. (small) onion, leek

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[10], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

dos

1. (anatomy) back (of a person)
2. (in the plural) backs (of persons)
3. (swimming) backstroke