duoとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.əʊ/, /ˈdʒuː.əʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.oʊ/, /ˈdju.oʊ/
• 韻: -uːəʊ

名詞

duo (複数形 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.

同意語

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

派生語

関連する語

• duet

派生した語

• → Finnish: duo

参考

• trio
• quartet
• Thesaurus:number

アナグラム

• oud, udo

Latin

別の表記

• Symbol: II

語源

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

発音

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

数詞

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."

使用する際の注意点

• See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

語形変化

Numeral, plural only.

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

派生語

• duabus sellis sedeo

関連する語

派生した語

参考

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

参照

• “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 かつ 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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to divide into two factions: in duas partes discedere (Sall. Iug. 13. 1)
    
  • to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
    

接頭辞

duo-

1. two

同意語

• di-
• bi-

派生語

関連する語

• duo
• duodenum
• duopoly

参考

• bi-
• di-
• twi-

アナグラム

• oud, udo