## Meanings
1. A measured amount of medicine to be taken at one time.
2. An amount of something experienced at one time.
3. To give someone a measured amount of medicine.

## Examples
- Be careful not to take more than the prescribed dose.
- A daily dose of exercise keeps her feeling energetic.
- The nurse dosed the patient with painkillers every four hours.

## Derived Forms
- doseable
- dosemeter
- dosology
- interdose
- isodose
- macrodose
- megadose
- microdose
- multidose
- paleodose
- postdose
- predose

## Related Forms
- dosage

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *deh₃-
- Root: dosis
- Root: δόσις

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.

## AI Etymology
Dose is borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos. In current use, the main senses are “A measured amount of medicine to be taken at one time” and “An amount of something experienced at one time”.

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