duel

See also: -dül and dual

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo, from Old Latin duellum (whence Latin bellum (“war”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dāu-, *dəu- *dū- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Pronunciation

Noun

duel (plural duels)

  1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
  3. Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

Translations

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Verb

duel (third-person singular simple present duels, present participle (US) dueling or (UK) duelling, simple past and past participle (US) dueled or (UK) duelled)

  1. To engage in a battle.

Translations

See also

dual

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo, from Old Latin duellum (whence Latin bellum (“war”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dāu-, *deu- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

  1. duel

Danish

Etymology

From Latin duellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duɛl/, [d̥uˈɛlˀ]

Noun

duel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller)

  1. duel

Inflection

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Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • duwel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French duel, from Latin duellum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dyˈʋɛl/
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Noun

duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

  1. A duel

Synonyms

  • tweekamp

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɥɛl/

Adjective

duel (feminine singular duelle, masculine plural duels, feminine plural duelles)

  1. dual (having two components)

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

  1. duel (battle)
  2. (grammar) dual

Further reading

Old French

FWOTD – 9 April 2014

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin dolus, from Latin dolor (“pain”), or from Vulgar Latin *dolium, from Latin cordolium (“sorrow of the heart”), from dolor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dwel/, [dwøl]

Noun

duel m (oblique plural dueus or duex or duels, nominative singular dueus or duex or duels, nominative plural duel)

  1. sadness; grief; sorrow

Descendants

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