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duel

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men, duel”), itself from Old Latin duellum (“war, fight”), which survived in Classical Latin as a rare byform of bellum and was later reinterpreted as “duel” by unetymological association with duo (“two”).

May have entered English through Middle French duel. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːəl/
• (General American) enPR: d(y)o͞oʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uəl/

• Homophones: dual, jewel (yod-coalescence)
• Rhymes: -uːəl, -ʊəl
• Hyphenation: du‧el

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. (by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• duello
• dual

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ULed, leud, lude, lued

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duello, from Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men”), under influence from Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [duˈɛl]

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel

Derived terms

• duelista

Further reading

• “duel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “duel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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

Borrowed from Middle French duel, from Latin duellum (“war”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɛl/, [d̥uˈɛlˀ]

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): /dyˈ(ʋ)ɛl/
• Hyphenation: du‧el
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

1. a duel

Synonyms

• tweegevecht
• tweekamp

Derived terms

• duelleren
• duellist

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɥɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɥɛl

Adjective

duel (feminine 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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): /du͡ɛl/

Noun

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

1. sadness; grief; sorrow

Descendants

• French: deuil
• Norman: deu

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French duel, from Latin duellum.

Noun

duel n (plural dueluri)

1. duel

Declension