# doze
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doʊz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊz
* Homophones: does, dos, doughs

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Alternative forms

* dose (archaic)

#### Verb

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

##### Synonyms

* (sleep lightly): slumber

##### Derived terms

* adoze
* Windoze

##### Translations
#### Noun

doze (plural dozes)
* 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."

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:sleep

##### Derived terms

* dozer
* doze off
* dozy

##### Translations
#### See also

* catnap
* nap
* shuteye
* sleep
* slumber

### Etymology 2

Clipping of bulldoze.

#### Verb

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)
* (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

### Etymology 3
#### Determiner

doze
* 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
### Numeral

doze
* Superseded spelling of doce or dotze.

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin duodecim.

### Numeral

doze (invariable) (ORB, broad)
* twelve

### References

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

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

### Numeral

doze (reintegrationist norm)
* twelve

### Further reading

* “doze” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Old Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdo.d͡ze/

### Numeral

doze
* 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)

## Old French

cardinal number :
| 12 | Previous: | onze |
| 12 | Next: | treze |

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (early) /ˈdo.d͡zə/
* IPA: (late) /ˈdu.zə/

### Numeral

doze
* twelve

#### Derived terms

* 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

#### Descendants

* French: douze
* Norman: douze
* Walloon: doze

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.zi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.zi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.ze/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdo.zɨ/
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: /ˈduz/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ozi
* Hyphenation: do‧ze

### Etymology 1

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

#### Numeral

doze m or f
* twelve

##### Derived terms

* cortar um doze
* dozena
* dozeno

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of calibre 12 (“12-gauge”).

#### Noun

doze f (plural dozes)
* (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

doze f (plural dozes)
* Obsolete spelling of dose.

## Venetan
### Noun

doze m (plural dozi)
* (non-traditional) Alternative spelling of doxe (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”)

### Noun

doze f (plural doze)
* (non-traditional) Alternative spelling of doxe (“dose, quantity”)

## Walloon
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔs/

### Numeral

doze
* twelve