dosis

See also: Dosis and dösis

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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Noun

dosis (plural dosisse)

1. dose

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdɔ.zis]

Noun

dosis

1. plural of dosi

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/

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• Hyphenation: do‧sis

Noun

dosis f (plural doses or dosissen, diminutive dosisje n)

1. dose

Derived terms

• overdosis
• stralingsdosis

Related terms

• doos

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dosis
• → Indonesian: dosis

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.

Noun

dósis

1. dose, medicine

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)

1. dose:
   1. (medicine, pharmacology) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

      Synonym: dos (Standard Malay)

   2. (nuclear physics, radiology) the quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.

      Synonym: dos (Standard Malay)

2. dosage:
   1. dosing: the administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount.

      Synonym: takaran

      Synonym: dosej (Standard Malay)

   2. dose.

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.sis/, [ˈd̪ɔːs̬is]

Noun

dosis f (genitive dosis or doseōs or dosios); third declension

1. (Late Latin) dose

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

	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

• Catalan: dosi
• Danish: dosis
• Dutch: dosis
  • Afrikaans: dosis
  • → Indonesian: dosis
• Middle Dutch: dose
  • Dutch: doos (see there for further descendants)
• Middle French: dose
  • French: dose (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: dôse
  • → English: dose
    • → Malay: dos
• German: Dosis
• Hungarian: dózis
• Italian: dose
• Occitan: dòsi
• Portuguese: dose
• Sicilian: dosi
• Spanish: dosis
  • → Hiligaynon: dósis
  • → Tagalog: dosis
• Swedish: dos

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

Noun

dosis f (plural dosis)

1. dose

Derived terms

• dosis de su propia medicina

 

Related terms

• dosificar
• monodosis
• unidosis

 

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: dósis
• → Tagalog: dosis

Further reading

• “dosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdosis/ [ˈd̪oː.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: do‧sis

Noun

dosis (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒᜐ᜔)

1. (medicine) dose; dosage

Further reading

• “dosis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018