different between duel vs contest

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 *d?u-, *d?u- *d?- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dju??l/
• (General American) enPR: d(y)o?o??l, IPA^(key): /?d(j)u?l/
• Homophone: dual
• Rhymes: -u??l, -??l
• Hyphenation: du?el

Noun

duel (plural duels)

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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

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.

Related terms

• duellist
• duello
• truel

Translations

See also

dual

Anagrams

• ULed, leud, lude, lued

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 *d?u-, *deu- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel

Derived terms

• duelista

Further reading

• “duel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “duel” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “duel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “duel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin duellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?l/, [d?u??l?]

Noun

duel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller)

1. duel

Inflection

Synonyms

• tvekamp

Derived terms

• duellere

Further reading

• duel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Alternative forms

• duwel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French duel, from Latin duellum (“duel; war”), archaic form of bellum (“war”). In Mediaeval Latin the meaning shifted from “war” to “duel” because of folk etymology associating it with duo (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy?(?)?l/
• Hyphenation: du?el
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

1. A duel.

Synonyms

• tweegevecht
• tweekamp

Derived terms

• duelleren
• duellist

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin du?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Adjective

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

1. dual (having two components)

Related terms

• dualité

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

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

Further reading

• “duel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• dol

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): /du??l/

Noun

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

1. sadness; grief; sorrow
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Son plor et son duel demenant

Descendants

• French: deuil
• Norman: deu

Romanian

Etymology

From French duel, from Latin duellum.

Noun

duel n (plural dueluri)

1. duel

Declension

English

Etymology

From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• (US) enPR: k?n't?st, IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• Rhymes: -?nt?st

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?nt?st', IPA^(key): /k?n?t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

contest (countable and uncountable, plural contests)

1. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.

   Synonyms: controversy, debate, discussion

2. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

   Synonyms: battle, combat, fight

3. (countable) A competition.

   Synonyms: competition, pageant

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)

1. (intransitive) To contend.

   Synonyms: compete, contend, go in for

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory

2. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.

   Synonyms: call into question, oppose

   Antonym: support

   • 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

     Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

3. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

4. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

   Synonym: controvert

Translations

Anagrams

• Consett, Cottens