Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• δύω ‎(dúō) (Epic)

Numeral

δύο • ‎(dúo) ‎(ordinal δεύτερος, adverbial δίς)

1. (cardinal): two

Inflection

Note: δύο sometimes is undeclined.

Descendants

• Greek: δύο ‎(dýo, “two”)

References

• δύο in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δύο in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δύο in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δύο» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «δύο» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δύο» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δύο in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1417”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • two idem, page 904.

Greek

Alternative forms

• δυο ‎(dyo)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δύο ‎(dúo), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈðiˌo̞]
• Hyphenation: δύ‧ο

• Homophone: δύω ‎(dýo)

Numeral

δύο • ‎(dýo) ‎(invariable)

1. (cardinal) two

Usage notes

The stressed form is used to reinforce the number (compare with δυο).

Δύο μπίρες, όχι μία.‎ ― Dýo bíres, óchi mía. ― Two beers, not one.

Derived terms

• δυόμισι ‎(dyómisi, “half past two, two and a half”)

Coordinate terms

• Greek number and measurement