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duo
/ˈdu.oʊ/
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What does duo mean?
noun
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
- Two musicians who perform music together.
- Any pair of people.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- A meal with two paired components.
- A song in two parts; a duet.
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdu.oʊ/
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Till within a fortnight, a pair of indigo-birds would keep up their lively duo for an hour together.
At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.
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Mr Burd points out that this passage is imitated directly from Cicero’s “De Officiis”: “Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum; confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.”
Besides these, there was a fine selection of the classics--Plato, Aristotle, including the Politica and Ethica, Æschines’ orations, Terence, Varro’s De Originae linguae Latinae, Cicero’s letters, Verrine and other orations, and “opera viginti duo Tullii in magno volumine,” Livy, Ovid, Seneca’s tragedies, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, the Golden Ass of Apuleius, and Suetonius.