- duel
[duel 词源字典]
- duel: see dual
[duel etymology, duel origin, 英语词源] - duel (n.)
- 1590s (from late 13c. in Latin form), from Medieval Latin duellum "combat between two persons," by association with Latin duo "two," but originally from Latin duellum "war," an Old Latin form of bellum (see bellicose). Retained in poetic and archaic language and apparently given a special meaning in Medieval or Late Latin of "one-on-one combat" on fancied connection with duo "two."
- duel (v.)
- 1640s, see duel (n.). Related: Dueled; dueling; duelling.