Dosage

Part of Speech

noun

Difficulty Level

Translations

🇩🇪 Dosierung , 🇪🇸 dosificación , 🇮🇹 dosaggio , 🇵🇹 dosagem , 🇨🇳 剂量 , 🇯🇵 投与量 , 🇰🇷 도량 , 🇸🇦 جرعة , 🇮🇳 दोज़

Usage Examples

Etymology

**Dosage** (noun) is a French borrowing of the verb **doser** “to dose, to give an amount”. *Doser* itself comes from a late‑Latin verb *dosare* “to allot or measure out a dose”, derived from the root *dos-* meaning “measure” (cognate with Latin *dō* “give” in the sense of allotting). The noun entered French in the early 18th century, aligning with the adoption of English medical terminology, and has kept the sense of a prescribed quantity of a substance.

Synonyms

quantité mesure proportion ratio portion titrage posologie

Antonyms

surdosage insuffisance absence de dose indétermination de la dose