douce
English
/duːs/
adj
Definitions
- (obsolete) Sweet; nice; pleasant.
- (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English douce derived from Old French dolz derived from Middle French doux derived from Latin dulcis (sweet, pleasant).
Origin
Latin
dulcis
Gloss
sweet, pleasant
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- doucely English
- douceness English
- dulce English
- dulcamarus Latin
- dulcedo Latin
- dulcesco Latin
- dulcifer Latin
- dulcifico Latin
- dulcis Latin
- dulcitas Latin
- dulciter Latin
- dulco Latin
- dulcor, dulcōrem Latin
- dulcō Latin
- dulce Spanish, Castilian
- *dl̥kú- Proto-Indo-European
- douce Middle English
- doucen Middle English
- douceoure Middle English
- doucet Middle English
- egurdouce Middle English
- dolz Old French
- doucet Old French
- dous Old French
- douz Old French
- doux Middle French
- dousor Old Occitan
- dulse Ladino