duel

Meanings

Noun

• Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
• Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
• Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

Verb

• To engage in a battle.

Origin

• 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-.