dose

See also: Dose, dosé, dôse, dōse, dosë, and döse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /doʊs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊs

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  2. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
    • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
      Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
  3. A venereal infection.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 382:
      It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.

Translations

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. To administer a dose.
  2. To prescribe a dose.

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Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

dose

  1. plural of doos

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doz/
  • Audio (FR)(file)

Etymology 1

From Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. proportion
  2. dose
Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

dose

  1. first-person singular present indicative of doser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of doser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doser
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of doser
  5. second-person singular imperative of doser

Further reading

Italian

Noun

dose f (plural dosi)

  1. dose
  2. quantity, amount, measure
  3. deal (great-good) (gran dose-buona dose)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Portuguese

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. dose (measured portion of medicine)
  2. (Portugal) portion (of a meal / food)
    Uma meia dose de sardinhas assadas.
    Half a portion of grilled sardines.
  3. (informal) fix (a single dose of an addictive drug)

Synonyms

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