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English

Noun

duello (plural duellos or duelloes)

1. (obsolete) A duel.

Anagrams

• deloul

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin duellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??l.lo/
• Rhymes: -?llo

Noun

duello m (plural duelli)

1. duel

Derived terms

• duellare

Etymology 2

Verb

duello

1. first-person singular present indicative of duellare

Further reading

• duello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

From duellum +? -?.

Verb

duell? (present infinitive duell?re, perfect active duell?v?, supine duell?tum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) to duel

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

duell?

1. dative singular of duellum
2. ablative singular of duellum

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)

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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