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- Latin · borrowed fromduāle tantum“dual as such; dual only”
- English todayduale tantum
From Latin duāle tantum (“dual as such; dual only”), from duāle + tantum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
duale tantum
Today it means: A noun (or specific sense of a noun) that can only occur in the dual, and which lacks forms for singular, plural, and any other number. Full definition →
Latin duāle tantum