duo

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.əʊ/, /ˈdʒuː.əʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.oʊ/, /ˈdju.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -uːəʊ

duo (plural duos)

1. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
2. Any pair of two people.
3. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
4. A song in two parts; a duet.
   • 2009, Dean, Roger T., 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.

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

• duet

• → Finnish: duo

• trio
• quartet
• Thesaurus:number

• oud, udo

• duwo

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

duo

1. two

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

duo n

1. duet

   Synonym: duet

• duo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• duo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdy(ʋ)oː/

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• Hyphenation: duo

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

1. twosome

• tweetal

• duet

• oud

From du +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈduo]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: du‧o

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

1. twosome, pair, couple

   Synonyms: duopo, paro

2. the digit or figure two

Borrowed from English duo.

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

duo

1. duo, twosome

Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.

• IPA^(key): /dɥo/

duo m (plural duos)

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

• → Romanian: duo

• solo, trio

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

• d'où

Borrowed from Latin duo (“two”).

duo

1. two

From Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

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

duo (invariable)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of due

duo m (invariable)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of due
2. duo

   Synonym: duetto

3. (music) duet

   Synonym: duetto

• due

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

• Prose della volgar lingua, 3.II

• udo-

• Symbol: II

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uɔ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o/, [ˈd̪uːo]

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

1. two; 2
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 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."

• See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Numeral, plural only.

Note: The genitive masculine and neuter can also be found in the contracted form duum (also spelt duûm).

• duabus sellis sedeo

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

• “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
    

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.

• 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.

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

duo

1. two

From Italian duo.

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))

From Italian duo.

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

1. a duo (as above)

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

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

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

• duo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• duo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Italian duo.

duo m (plural duos)

1. duo

   Synonym: dupla

From French duo.

duo n (plural duouri)

1. duet

From Italian duo.

duo c

1. duo, duet

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

duo

1. two

Contraction of dúró.

• IPA^(key): /dú.ó/

dúó

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