douce
Middle English
/duːs/
adj
Definitions
- Pleasant, sweet, nice, kind.
- Sweet to the taste.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French dolz 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
- douce English
- doucely English
- douceness English
- dulce English
- dulceness English
- dulcet 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
- doucen Middle English
- douceoure Middle English
- doucet Middle English
- egre Middle English
- egurdouce Middle English
- aigredouce Old French
- dolz Old French
- dolçor Old French
- doucet Old French
- dous Old French
- douz Old French
- doux Middle French
- dousor Old Occitan
- dulse Ladino