deuce
English
/djuːs/, /duːs/, /djuːs/, /duːs/
noun
Definitions
- (cards) A card with two pip#Etymology 3|pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- (dice) A side of a die with two spots.
- (dice) A cast of dice totalling two.
- The number two.
- (tennis) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A '32 .
- (in the plural) 2-Venturi barrel (twin choke) carburetors in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold.
- (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
- (North America) A piece of excrement.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English dewes (two) derived from Old French deus (God) derived from Latin duo (two).
Origin
Latin
duo
Gloss
two
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Number
Kanji
二
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -y English
- ace English
- acey-deucey English
- deuced English
- deucedly English
- *dui Latin
- dubius Latin
- duellum Latin
- duo Latin
- duos Latin
- duplus Latin
- duōs Latin
- Duo German
- duo Italian
- duodi French
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- ヅース Japanese
- デュース Japanese
- dew Middle English
- dewes Middle English
- deus Old French
- doi Old French
- du Esperanto
- daeux Norman
- deux Norman
- deux Middle French
- דו Hebrew (modern)
- *duō Proto-Italic
- doi Friulian
- doi Dalmatian
- deus Walloon
- doi Ladin
- dui Istriot
- dui Corsican
- duellum Old Latin
- doi Piedmontese