duo

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdjuː.əʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.əʊ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈdu.oʊ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈdju.oʊ/
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• rhymes with -uːəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: D UW1 OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: duet — twosome, especially musicians
• Catalan: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Chinese Mandarin: 二重唱 (èrchóngchàng) — twosome, especially musicians
• Chinese Mandarin: 二重奏 (èrchóngzòu) — twosome, especially musicians
• Czech: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Danish: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Dutch: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Dutch: paar — twosome, especially musicians
• Dutch: koppel — twosome, especially musicians
• Esperanto: duopo — twosome, especially musicians
• Finnish: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• French: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• German: Duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Hebrew: צמד (tsémed) — twosome, especially musicians
• Hungarian: duó — twosome, especially musicians
• Icelandic: dúó — twosome, especially musicians
• Icelandic: par — twosome, especially musicians
• Italian: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Italian: duetto — twosome, especially musicians
• Japanese: 二重唱 (nijūshō) — twosome, especially musicians
• Japanese: 二重奏 (nijūsō) — twosome, especially musicians
• Japanese: デュオ (dyuo) — twosome, especially musicians
• Japanese: デュエット (dyuetto) — twosome, especially musicians
• Māori: takirua — twosome, especially musicians
• Māori: tokorua — twosome, especially musicians
• Norwegian Bokmål: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Norwegian Nynorsk: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Portuguese: dupla — twosome, especially musicians
• Portuguese: par — twosome, especially musicians
• Russian: дуэ́т (duét) — twosome, especially musicians
• Russian: дво́йка (dvójka) — twosome, especially musicians
• Russian: дво́е (dvóje) — twosome, especially musicians
• Russian: па́ра (pára) — twosome, especially musicians
• Russian: дуо (duo) — twosome, especially musicians
• Northern Sami: guovttis — twosome, especially musicians
• Slovene: duet — twosome, especially musicians
• Spanish: dúo — twosome, especially musicians
• Spanish: dupla — twosome, especially musicians
• Spanish: equipo de dos — twosome, especially musicians
• Swedish: duo — twosome, especially musicians
• Turkish: ikili — twosome, especially musicians
• Ukrainian: дуе́т (duét) — twosome, especially musicians
• Bulgarian: дво́йка (dvójka) — any pair of two people
• Catalan: parell — any pair of two people
• Catalan: parella — any pair of two people
• Finnish: pari — any pair of two people
• Finnish: parivaljakko — any pair of two people
• Turkish: çift — any pair of two people
• Ukrainian: дві́йка (dvíjka) — any pair of two people