different between skirmish vs duel

English

Alternative forms

• scirmish

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French escarmouche (“skirmish”), from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??m??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?m??/
• Hyphenation: skir?mish

Noun

skirmish (plural skirmishes)

1. (military) A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Any minor dispute.

3. A type of outdoor military style game using paintball or similar weapons.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fight
• See also Thesaurus:dispute

Related terms

• screen

Translations

Verb

skirmish (third-person singular simple present skirmishes, present participle skirmishing, simple past and past participle skirmished)

1. To engage in a minor battle or dispute

Translations

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