doux

Borrowed from French doux. Doublet of douce, dolce, and dulce.

• IPA^(key): /duː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: do, doo
• Homophones: dew, due (yod-dropping)

doux (comparative more doux, superlative most doux)

1. (wine) Sweet.

• billet-doux

• udox

Inherited from Latin duōs.

doux (feminine doves) (ORB, broad)

1. two

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

Inherited from Old French dous, from Latin dulcem (“sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /du/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: Doubs, doue, douent, doues
• Hyphenation: doux

doux (feminine douce, masculine plural doux, feminine plural douces)

1. sweet
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.

     So taken away was he by such sweet thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.

2. soft
3. mild
4. gentle (gradual rather than steep)

   une pente douce ― a gentle slope

   Antonym: raide

5. fresh, not salty (of water)

• douçâtre
• doucereux
• doucette
• douceur

doux

1. gently

   Synonym: doucement

Only used in a few expressions: tout doux, filer doux, rouler doux.

• “doux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French dous, from Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).

doux m

1. (Jersey) mild, sweet

• chèrfi doux (“cicely”)
• douochement (“mildly, sweetly”)