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English

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duo

Etymology

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PIE word
*dwóh₁

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

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.əʊ/, /ˈdʒuː.əʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.oʊ/, /ˈdju.oʊ/
Rhymes: -uːəʊ

**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)

Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
Any pair of people.
Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
A meal with two paired components.
The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
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.

Synonyms

(pair of two people): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

Derived terms

Related terms

duet

Translations

twosome, especially musicians

Catalan: duet m, duo (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 二重唱 (zh) (èrchóngchàng) (vocal), 二重奏 (zh) (èrchóngzòu) (instrumental)
Czech: duo (cs) n
Danish: duo (da) c
Dutch: duo (nl) n, paar (nl) n, koppel (nl) n
Esperanto: duopo
Finnish: duo (fi)
French: duo (fr) m
German: Duo (de) n
Hebrew: צמד (he) m (tsémed)
Hungarian: duó (hu)
Icelandic: dúó n, par (is) n
Italian: duo (it) m, duetto (it) m
Japanese: 二重唱 (ja) (にじゅうしょう, nijūshō) (vocal), 二重奏 (ja) (にじゅうそう, nijūsō) (instrumental), デュオ (ja) (dyuo), デュエット (ja) (dyuetto)
Maori: takirua, tokorua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: duo (no) m

Nynorsk: duo m
Portuguese: dupla (pt) f, par (pt) m
Russian: дуэ́т (ru) m (duét), дво́йка (ru) f (dvójka), (collective) дво́е (ru) pl (dvóje), па́ра (ru) f (pára)
Slovene: duet m
Spanish: dúo (es) m, dupla (es) f, equipo de dos m
Swedish: duo (sv) c

any pair of two people

Finnish: pari (fi), parivaljakko (fi)

cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur

song in two parts — see duet

Anagrams

udo, oud, ODU

Central Dusun

**Central Dusun numbers ^(edit)**
← 1	2	3 →
Cardinal: duo Ordinal: koduo

Alternative forms

duwo

Etymology

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

Numeral

duo

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈduo]
Hyphenation: duo

Noun

duo n

duet
Synonym: duet

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	duo	dua
genitive	dua	duí
dative	duu	duím, duům
accusative	duo	dua
vocative	duo	dua
locative	duu	duích, duech
instrumental	duem	dui, duy

Declension of duo (semisoft neuter)

Related terms

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

duo

Wikipedia ^nl

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)

twosome

Synonyms

tweetal

Derived terms

cabaretduo
duobaan
duomoeder
duoraadslid
duovader
zangduo

Related terms

duet

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From du +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

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

Noun

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

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

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)

aso	duo	trio	kvaro	kvino	seso	sepo

oko	naŭo	deko	fanto, bubo	damo	reĝo	ĵokero

Finnish

Etymology

< Italian duo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

duo

duo (twosome of musicians performing together)
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.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Inflection of duo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		duo	duot
genitive		duon	duojen
partitive		duoa	duoja
illative		duoon	duoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		duo	duot
accusative	nom.	duo	duot
accusative	gen.	duon	duot
genitive		duon	duojen
partitive		duoa	duoja
inessive		duossa	duoissa
elative		duosta	duoista
illative		duoon	duoihin
adessive		duolla	duoilla
ablative		duolta	duoilta
allative		duolle	duoille
essive		duona	duoina
translative		duoksi	duoiksi
abessive		duotta	duoitta
instructive		—	duoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Possessive forms of duo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		duoni	duoni
accusative	nom.	duoni	duoni
accusative	gen.	duoni	duoni
genitive		duoni	duojeni
partitive		duoani	duojani
inessive		duossani	duoissani
elative		duostani	duoistani
illative		duooni	duoihini
adessive		duollani	duoillani
ablative		duoltani	duoiltani
allative		duolleni	duoilleni
essive		duonani	duoinani
translative		duokseni	duoikseni
abessive		duottani	duoittani
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	duoineni

second-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		duosi	duosi
accusative	nom.	duosi	duosi
accusative	gen.	duosi	duosi
genitive		duosi	duojesi
partitive		duoasi	duojasi
inessive		duossasi	duoissasi
elative		duostasi	duoistasi
illative		duoosi	duoihisi
adessive		duollasi	duoillasi
ablative		duoltasi	duoiltasi
allative		duollesi	duoillesi
essive		duonasi	duoinasi
translative		duoksesi	duoiksesi
abessive		duottasi	duoittasi
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	duoinesi

first-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		duomme	duomme
accusative	nom.	duomme	duomme
accusative	gen.	duomme	duomme
genitive		duomme	duojemme
partitive		duoamme	duojamme
inessive		duossamme	duoissamme
elative		duostamme	duoistamme
illative		duoomme	duoihimme
adessive		duollamme	duoillamme
ablative		duoltamme	duoiltamme
allative		duollemme	duoillemme
essive		duonamme	duoinamme
translative		duoksemme	duoiksemme
abessive		duottamme	duoittamme
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	duoinemme

second-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		duonne	duonne
accusative	nom.	duonne	duonne
accusative	gen.	duonne	duonne
genitive		duonne	duojenne
partitive		duoanne	duojanne
inessive		duossanne	duoissanne
elative		duostanne	duoistanne
illative		duoonne	duoihinne
adessive		duollanne	duoillanne
ablative		duoltanne	duoiltanne
allative		duollenne	duoillenne
essive		duonanne	duoinanne
translative		duoksenne	duoiksenne
abessive		duottanne	duoittanne
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	duoinenne

third-person possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		duonsa	duonsa
accusative	nom.	duonsa	duonsa
accusative	gen.	duonsa	duonsa
genitive		duonsa	duojensa
partitive		duoaan duoansa	duojaan duojansa
inessive		duossaan duossansa	duoissaan duoissansa
elative		duostaan duostansa	duoistaan duoistansa
illative		duoonsa	duoihinsa
adessive		duollaan duollansa	duoillaan duoillansa
ablative		duoltaan duoltansa	duoiltaan duoiltansa
allative		duolleen duollensa	duoilleen duoillensa
essive		duonaan duonansa	duoinaan duoinansa
translative		duokseen duoksensa	duoikseen duoiksensa
abessive		duottaan duottansa	duoittaan duoittansa
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	duoineen duoinensa

Derived terms

compounds

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

duo

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɥo/
Audio: (file)

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

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

Descendants

→ Romanian: duo

Anagrams

d’où

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duo (“two”).

Numeral

duo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin duo (“two”).

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

duo (invariable)

(obsolete) Alternative form of due

Noun

duo m (invariable)

(obsolete) Alternative form of due
duo
Synonym: duetto
(music) duet
Synonym: duetto

Related terms

Descendants

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

Anagrams

udo-

Latin

More information II 2 ...

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
	20
← 1	II 2	3 →
Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus, alter Adverbial: bis Proportional: duplus Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex Distributive: bīnus Collective: bīniō Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis

Alternative forms

Symbol: II

Etymology

More information PIE word ...

PIE word
*dwóh₁

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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uɔ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uːo]

Numeral

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

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

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Declension

Numeral, plural only.

More information plural, masculine ...

	plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	duo	duae	duo
genitive	duōrum duum	duārum	duōrum duum
dative	duōbus	duābus	duōbus
accusative	duōs duo	duās	duo
ablative	duōbus	duābus	duōbus
vocative	duo	duae	duo

Derived terms

duābus sellīs sedeō

Related terms

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: doi m, dao f, dau f, dauã f, doauã f
- Istro-Romanian: doi
- Megleno-Romanian: doi, doauă
- Romanian: doi m, două f
Dalmatian Romance:
- Dalmatian: doi
- Istriot: dui, duj
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: dui m, duie f
- Italian: due, duo, ⇒ duetto (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: dduje
- Sicilian: dui
Padanian:
- Rhaeto-Romance
  - Friulian: doi, dôs
  - Ladin: doi
  - Romansch: dus m, duas f
- Gallo-Italic
  - Piedmontese: doi
  - Venetan: do m, due f
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: doux m, doves f
- Old French: deus
  - Middle French: deus
    - French: deux
    - Norman: deux, daeux
  - Walloon: deus
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: dos m, dues f
- Old Occitan: dos m, doas f, doi
  - Occitan: dos m, doas f, dui, doi, (Aranese) dus
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: dos
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: dos
  - Mirandese: dous m, dues f
- Old Galician-Portuguese: dous m, duas f
  - Fala: dois
  - Galician: dous
  - Portuguese: dois, dous (dated), doys (obsolete)
  - Galician: dúas
  - Portuguese: duas
- Old Spanish: dos, dúas f
  - Ladino: dos
  - Spanish: dos
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: duos, duas
Constructed languages:
- → Esperanto: du
- → Ido: du
- → Interlingua: duo

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

Mandarin

Romanization

duo (duo⁵ / duo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄨㄛ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𦕰

duo

Nonstandard spelling of duō.
Nonstandard spelling of duó.
Nonstandard spelling of duǒ.
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**
< 1	2	3 >
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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian duo.

Noun

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

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)

a duo (as above)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

duo

Wikipedia ^pl

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)

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duo.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.u/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.u/, /ˈdu.ɔ/

Noun

duo m (plural duos)

duo
Synonym: dupla

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French duo.

Noun

duo n (plural duouri)

duet

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Declension of *duo*
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	duo	duoul	duouri	duourile
genitive-dative	duo	duoului	duouri	duourilor
vocative	duoule		duourilor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

duo

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Italian duo.

Noun

duo c

a duo

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Declension of *duo*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	duo	duos
singular	definite	duon	duons
plural	indefinite	duor	duors
plural	definite	duorna	duornas

References

Welsh

Etymology

du (“black”) +‎ -o

Pronunciation

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɨː.ɔ/
(South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɔ/

Verb

duo (first-person singular present duaf)

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

Conjugation

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Conjugation (literary)
	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	duaf	dui	dua	duwn	duwch	duant	duir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	duwn	duit	duai	duem	duech	duent	duid
preterite	duais	duaist	duodd	duasom	duasoch	duasant	duwyd
pluperfect	duaswn	duasit	duasai	duasem	duasech	duasent	duasid, duesid
present subjunctive	duwyf	duych	duo	duom	duoch	duont	duer
imperative	—	dua	dued	duwn	duwch	duent	duer

verbal noun	duo
verbal adjectives	duedig duadwy

More information inflected colloquial forms, singular ...

Conjugation (colloquial)
inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	dua i, duaf i	dui di	duith o/e/hi, duiff e/hi	duwn ni	duwch chi	duan nhw
conditional	duwn i, duswn i	duet ti, duset ti	duai fo/fe/hi, dusai fo/fe/hi	duen ni, dusen ni	duech chi, dusech chi	duen nhw, dusen nhw
preterite	duais i, dues i	duaist ti, duest ti	duodd o/e/hi	duon ni	duoch chi	duon nhw
imperative	—	dua	—	—	duwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...

Mutated forms of *duo*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
duo	dduo	nuo	unchanged

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

References

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

Yoruba

Etymology

Contraction of dúró.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dú.ó/

Verb

dúó

(Ondo) Ondo form of dúró (“to wait”)

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Esperanto

Etymology

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Finnish

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French

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Interlingua

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Mandarin

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Minangkabau

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