different between doux vs douc

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French doux. Doublet of dulce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?/
• Homophones: do, doo
• Homophones: dew, due (in accents with yod-dropping)

Adjective

doux (comparative more doux, superlative most doux)

1. (wine) Sweet.

Anagrams

• udox

French

Etymology

From Old French dous, inherited from Latin dulcis (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *dl?kú- (“sweet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/
• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: Doubs, doue, douent, doues
• Hyphenation: doux

Adjective

doux (feminine singular 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:

     Il lui parut convenable et nécessaire, aussi bien pour l’éclat de sa gloire que pour le service de son pays, de se faire chevalier errant, de s’en aller par le monde, avec son cheval et ses armes, chercher les aventures, et de pratiquer tout ce qu’il avait lu que pratiquaient les chevaliers errants, redressant toutes sortes de torts, et s’exposant à tant de rencontres, à tant de périls, qu’il acquît, en les surmontant, une éternelle renommée. Il s’imaginait déjà, le pauvre rêveur, voir couronner la valeur de son bras au moins par l’empire de Trébizonde. 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.

     It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for the shine of his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing themselves to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. 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, gentle
4. (of water) fresh, not salty

Derived terms

Related terms

• douçâtre
• doucereux
• doucette
• douceur

Adverb

doux

1. gently

   Synonym: doucement

Usage notes

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

Further reading

• “doux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French dous, from Latin dulcis, dulcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dl?kú- (“sweet”).

Adjective

doux m

1. (Jersey) mild, sweet

Derived terms

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

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

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Noun

douc (plural doucs)

1. A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.

Anagrams

• cou'd, coud, docu, duco