Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. · Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat). · Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo engage in a battle.
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.
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