dosis
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch dosis, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis.
Pronunciation
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Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdoː.zɪs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: do‧sis
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “dosis” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish dosis, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis.
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin dosis (“dose”) (influenced by Dutch dosis (“dose”)), 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 Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis. Doublet of dus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdosɪs]
- Rhymes: -sɪs, -ɪs, -s
- Hyphenation: do‧sis
Noun
dosis (first-person possessive dosisku, second-person possessive dosismu, third-person possessive dosisnya)
- dose:
- (medicine, pharmacology) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
- Synonym: dos (Standard Malay)
- (nuclear physics, radiology) the quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
- Synonym: dos (Standard Malay)
- (medicine, pharmacology) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
- dosage:
Derived terms
- berdosis
- dosis ambang
- dosis maut
Further reading
- “dosis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed 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 Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis. Doublet of dōs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔːs̬is]
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dosis | dosēs doseis |
Genitive | dosis doseōs dosios |
dosium |
Dative | dosī | dosibus |
Accusative | dosim dosin dosem1 |
dosēs dosīs |
Ablative | dosī dose1 |
dosibus |
Vocative | dosis dosi |
dosēs doseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
References
- dosis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis. Doublet of dote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdosis/ [ˈd̪o.sis]
- Rhymes: -osis
- Syllabification: do‧sis
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish dosis, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), from Proto-Hellenic *dótis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdosis/, [ˈdo.sɪs]
- Hyphenation: do‧sis
Further reading
- “dosis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018