doze

• IPA^(key): /doʊz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: does, dos, doughs

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).

Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.

• dose (archaic)

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

   I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 357:

     She dozes, too. Lies there for a minute or two, all these thoughts going through her head.

2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, diary dated 13 October, 1666:

     I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

   • October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university

     They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.

• (sleep lightly): nod

doze (plural dozes)

1. A light, short sleep or nap.

   I felt much better after a short doze.

   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:

     Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:

     At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."

• See Thesaurus:sleep

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

Clipping of bulldoze.

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

doze

1. Pronunciation spelling of those.
   • 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck:

     Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!
     Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!

Aragonese cardinal numbers

<  11	12	13  >
Cardinal : doze

doze

1. superseded spelling of doce and dotze

Inherited from Latin duodecim.

doze (invariable) (ORB, broad)

1. twelve

• douze in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• doze in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Galician numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  11	12	13  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (reintegrationist): doze     Cardinal (standard): doce     Ordinal: duodécimo, décimo segundo     Ordinal abbreviation: 12º     Fractional (reintegrationist): doze avos     Fractional (standard): doceavo

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doze (reintegrationist norm)

1. twelve

• “doze”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Latin duodecim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.d͡ze/

doze

1. twelve
   • 15th century, Codex del Palau:

     Et Jesus dix a ells vn dels doze sera qui la ma met en la scudella ab mi.

     It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. (KJV)

cardinal number

12	Previous:	onze
	Next:	treze

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈdo.d͡zə/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈdu.zə/

doze

1. twelve

• dozaine (“dozen”)
  • French: douzaine (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: dosine
    • Dutch: dozijn (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: dozen, dozein, dozeyne
    • English: dozen (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle High German: totzan, totzen
    • German: Tutzet, Dutzet (archaic); Dutzend (see there for further descendants)
    • → Old Czech: tuzen
      • → Polish: tuzin

• French: douze
• Norman: douze
• Walloon: doze

Old Galician-Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

←  11	12	13  →
Cardinal: doze     Ordinal: décimo segundo

• dose

Inherited from Latin duodecim, from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoz̺e/
• Rhymes: -oz̺e
• Hyphenation: do‧ze

doze

1. twelve

• Fala: (Valverdeñu) doci, (Lagarteiru, Mañegu) dodi
• Galician: doce
• Portuguese: doze

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “doze”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “doze”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “doze”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “doze”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

←  11	12	13  →
Cardinal: doze     Ordinal: décimo segundo, duodécimo, dozeno     Ordinal abbreviation: 12.º, 12º     Multiplier: duodécuplo     Fractional: duodécimo, dozeno, um doze avos     Group: dúzia
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 12

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

• (São Miguel (Azores)) IPA^(key): /ˈduz/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ozi, (Portugal) -ozɨ
• Hyphenation: do‧ze

doze m or f

1. twelve

doze m (plural dozes)

1. twelve (the digit 12)

Ellipsis of calibre 12 (“12-gauge”).

doze f (plural dozes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:caçadeira

doze f (plural dozes)

1. obsolete spelling of dose

• “doze”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “doze”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

doze m (plural dozi)

1. (non-traditional) alternative spelling of doxe (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”)

doze f (plural doze)

1. (non-traditional) alternative spelling of doxe (“dose, quantity”)

From Old French doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

doze

1. twelve