δύο

• δῠ́’ (dŭ́’) — apocopic
• δῠ́ω (dŭ́ō) — Epic, Ionic
• δούο (doúo), δῐούο (dĭoúo) — Boeotian
• δῠ́ε (dŭ́e) — Laconian
• δῠ́ϝε (dŭ́we) — Euboean, Aetolian

From Proto-Hellenic *dúwo, from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, a variant of *dwóh₁.^[1] Cognates include Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Old Armenian երկու (erku), Latin duo, and Old English twā (English two).

δῠ́ο • (dŭ́o) (ordinal δεύτερος, adverbial δῐ́ς)

1. two

Various dialects inflected δύο (dúo) differently, and it was sometimes undeclined; this merely represents a sampling of various inflections. Inflection is normally more redundant than shown here.

• Greek: δύο (dýo, “two”)
• Cappadocian Greek:
  • Northeastern:
    • Delmeso: δύο (dýo), δυ̯ό (dy̯ó), ἐδυ̯ό (ἐdy̯ó)
    • Potamia: δύο (dýo)
  • Northwestern:
    • Silata: δύο (dýo)
    • Flojita: δύο (dýo)
    • Malakopi: δύου (dýou), δυ̯ό (dy̯ó)
  • Central:
    • Axo: dυ̯ό (dy̯ó), dύο (dýo)
    • Misthi: γυ̯ό (gy̯ó)
  • Southwestern:
    • Aravan: ρυ̯ό (ry̯ó), ἰρυ̯ό (ἰry̯ó)
    • Gurzono: ρυ̯ό (ry̯ó), ἐρυ̯ό (ἐry̯ó)
    • Fertek: ǰό (ǰó)
  • Southeastern:
    • Oulagatz: ρυ̯ό (ry̯ó), ἐρυ̯ό (ἐry̯ó)
    • Semendere: ἰζυ̯ό (ἰzy̯ó)
• Mariupol Greek: дъы́я (ðýja)
• Pharasiot:
  • Pharasa: δύο (dýo)
  • Çukuri: δύου (dýou)
• Silliot:
  • Sille: γυ̯ό (gy̯ó)
• Tsakonian:
  • Southern: δύου (dýou), δύ’ (dý’)
  • Propontis: ντύο (ntýo), ντυό (ntyó), ντό (ntó)

• “δύο”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δύο”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δύο”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δύο in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δύο in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δύο in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “δύο”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1417 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • two idem, page 904.
• δύο, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• δυο (dyo)

From Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), from Proto-Hellenic *dúwo, from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁).

Compare Mariupol Greek дъы́я (ðýja), дъи́я (ðíja).

• IPA^(key): /ˈði.o/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: δύ‧ο
• Homophone: δύω (dýo)

δύο • (dýo) (invariable)

1. two

The stressed form is used to reinforce the number (compare with δυο (dyo)).

δύο μπίρες, όχι μία.

dýo bíres, óchi mía.

two beers, not one.

• Greek number and measurement

• δυόμισι (dyómisi, “half past two, two and a half”)

• δυαδικός (dyadikós)

δύο • (dýo) n (indeclinable)

1. two (playing card)

• δύο, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language