duel

See also: -dül and dual

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 *dāu-, *dəu- *dū- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: dual
• 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. Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

Translations

combat between two persons

• Armenian: մենամարտ (hy) (menamart)
• Bulgarian: дуе́л (bg) m (duél), двубой (bg) (dvuboj)
• Catalan: duel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 決鬥／决斗 (zh) (juédòu), 决斗 (zh) (juédòu)

• Czech: duel (cs) m, souboj (cs) m
• Danish: duel (da) c, tvekamp c
• Dutch: duel (nl) n, tweegevecht (nl) n
• Esperanto: duelo (eo)
• Finnish: kaksintaistelu (fi)
• French: duel (fr) m
• Galician: duelo (gl) m
• German: Duell (de) n, Zweikampf (de) m
• Greek: μονομαχία (el) f (monomachía)

  Ancient: μονομαχία f (monomakhía)

• Hungarian: párbaj (hu)
• Italian: duello (it) m, singolar tenzone f
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• Japanese: 決闘 (けっとう, kettō), デュエル (dyueru)
• Macedonian: двобој (dvoboj)
• Norwegian: tvekamp (no) m

  Bokmål: duell (no) m

  Nynorsk: duell m

• Old English: ānwīġ n
• Persian: دوئل (fa) (duel)
• Polish: pojedynek (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: duelo (pt) m
• Russian: дуэ́ль (ru) f (duélʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: двобој m, dvoboj (sh) m
• Slovene: dvoboj (sl) m
• Spanish: duelo (es) m
• Swedish: duell (sv) c, tvekamp (sv) c
• Tagalog: akip
• Turkish: düello (tr)
• Ukrainian: дуе́ль f (duélʹ), двобій (dvobij)
• Vietnamese: quyết đấu

struggle between two parties

• Bulgarian: двубой (bg) m (dvuboj)
• Catalan: duel m
• Czech: souboj (cs) m
• Danish: duel (da) c, tvekamp c
• Dutch: duel (nl) n, tweekamp (nl)
• Esperanto: duelo (eo)
• Finnish: kaksinkamppailu
• French: duel (fr) m
• German: Duell (de) n, Zweikampf (de) m
• Greek: διαμάχη (el) f (diamáchi)
• Hungarian: párbaj (hu)
• Italian: duello (it) m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: duell (no) m

  Nynorsk: duell m

• Portuguese: duelo (pt) m
• Russian: поеди́нок (ru) m (pojedínok), единобо́рство (ru) n (jedinobórstvo)
• Slovene: dvoboj (sl) m
• Spanish: duelo (es) m
• Swedish: duell (sv) c, tvekamp (sv) c
• Tagalog: akip
• Turkish: düello (tr)
• Ukrainian: поєди́нок m (pojedýnok)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} duelo (eo)
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• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} duello

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

engage in a duel

• Armenian: մենամարտել (hy) (menamartel)
• Bulgarian: дуелирам се (dueliram se)
• Catalan: batre's en duel
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 決鬥／决斗 (zh) (juédòu), 决斗 (zh) (juédòu)

• Danish: duellere
• Dutch: duelleren (nl)
• Esperanto: dueli
• Finnish: kaksintaistella
• French: croiser le fer (fr)
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• German: duellieren (de)
• Hungarian: párbajozik (hu)
• Interlingua: duellar
• Italian: duellare
• Maori: tuku mātātahi
• Portuguese: duelar
• Russian: дра́ться на дуэ́ли impf (drátʹsja na duéli)
• Slovene: dvobojevati se
• Swedish: duellera (sv)
• Vietnamese: quyết đấu

See also

dual

Anagrams

• ULed, leud, lude, lued

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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 *dāu-, *deu- (“to injure, destroy, burn”).

Noun

duel m (plural duels)

1. duel

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin duellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɛl/, [d̥uˈɛlˀ]

Noun

duel c (singular definite duellen, plural indefinite dueller)

1. duel

Inflection

Declension of duel

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	duel	duellen	dueller	duellerne
genitive	duels	duellens	duellers	duellernes

Synonyms

• tvekamp

Derived terms

• duellere

Further reading

• duel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• duwel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French duel, from Latin duellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyˈʋɛl/

• Audio:

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Noun

duel n (plural duels, diminutive duelletje n)

1. A duel

Synonyms

• tweekamp

Related terms

• duelleren
• duellist m

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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.

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Old French

FWOTD – 9 April 2014

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): /dwel/, [dwøl]

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
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Son plor et son duel demenant

Descendants

• French: deuil
• Norman: deu