duel

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”).

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

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• Homophone: dual
• Rhymes: -uːəl, -ʊəl
• Hyphenation: du‧el

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.

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.

• duellist
• duello
• truel

dual

• ULed, leud, lude, lued

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”).

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel

From Latin duellum (“war”).

• IPA^(key): /duɛl/, [d̥uˈɛlˀ]

duel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller)

1. duel

• tvekamp

• duellere

• duel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• duwel (obsolete)

From Middle French duel, from Latin duellum.

• IPA^(key): /dyˈʋɛl/

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duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

1. A duel

• tweekamp

• duelleren
• duellist m

Borrowed from Latin duālis.

• IPA^(key): /dɥɛl/

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

1. dual (having two components)

• dualité

duel m (plural duels)

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

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

• dol

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

• IPA^(key): /dwel/, [dwøl]

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

• French: deuil
• Norman: deu