numeralnumeral, plural only
duo
duo (feminine duae, neuter duo)
Classical[ˈdu.ɔ]Ecclesiastical[ˈduː.o]
№ 221 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- numeralpluralplural onlytwo; 2
𐌀𐌇𐌖𐌉𐌃𐌉𐌄𐌔 𐌍𐌄𐌉[- - -]𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌𐌊𐌏𐌌𐌌𐌄𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌏𐌊𐌉𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌅𐌏𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌃𐌄𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌏[𐌌]
Ahuidies Do not take me! I am with my three companions, [the property] of the two Audii.c. 500 BCE, Garigliano bowl:c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 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?
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
two
Declension
| form | 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 |
dŭŏ, ae, ŏ (
I. acc. masc. duo as freq. as duos; cf. ambo. Passages with duo, Att. ap. Charis. p. 101 P.; Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 4; 3, 2, 37; id. Most. 3, 2, 89; 147; 148; id. Ps. 1, 3, 99; 4, 2, 43; Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 5; 3, 1, 9; Cic. Rep. 1, 10; 1, 13; 2, 14; 2, 19; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 9; id. Tull. § 19 Beier N. cr.; id. Fam. 3, 4, 2; 7, 25, 2; id. Att. 9, 11, A, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 69, 2; Liv. 6, 42 fin.; 35, 21; Suet. Calig. 41; id. Oth. 1, 5; Verg. A. 11, 285; Hor. S. 1, 7, 15 al.—Gen. duūm, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 102 P.; Att. ap. Cic. Or. 46 fin.; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 2; Sall. J. 106, 5; Liv. 3, 25; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 89; 15, 17, 18, § 63 et saep.—Neutr. dua, Att. ap. Cic. Or. 46 fin.;
and connected with pondo, also duapondo, Vitr. 10, 17; Scrib. Comp. 45; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 15.—The metre dŭō occurs only in Aus. Ep. 19, 13), card. num. [Sanscr. dva; Gr. δύο, δύω; Goth. tvai; Germ. zwei; Engl. two; cf.: bis (for dvis), dubius, duplex, etc.]. I. Two:
hi ambo et servus et hera frustra sunt duo, Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 19: angues duo maxumi, id. ib. 5, 1, 56: duo talenta argenti, id. As. 1, 3, 41 et saep.—II. = Gr. οἱ δύο, the two, both:
subito edicunt duo consules, Cic. Sest. 14, 32: duo sapientia praestantes, pater et socer, Nep. Tim. 3, 2: nocuit sua culpa duobus, Ov. M. 15, 115; cf.: vos inter duos, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 2: qui duo populi, Liv. 8, 17, 9.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
duo ae, o (gen. duōrum, duārum, often duūm; acc masc. duos and duo), num.
DVA-, two : pocula: menses: milia nummūm: duo quisque coruscant Gaesa manu, two each , V.— The two, both : duo consules: Roscii: nocuit sua culpa duobus, O.: qui duo populi, L.
duo virī, duovirī or II virī (less correctly duūmvirī) ōrum, m
a board of two persons, an extraordinary criminal court, duumviri (selected by Tullus Hostilius to try Horatius), L.; (by the people to try Manlius), L.; (to try Rabirius), C.: sacrorum, keepers of the Sibylline books, L.: navales, to build and equip a fleet, L.: ad aedem faciendam, to build a temple, L.—A board of colonial magistrates, Cs. — Each of the duo viri is called II vir or duūmvir, L.
Origins
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).
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