Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA set of twelve. · A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. · An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. · The number twelve.
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
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