duello

Borrowed from Italian duello. Doublet of duel.

duello (plural duellos or duelloes or duelli)

1. (obsolete) A duel.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269, column 2:

     Come ſir Andrew, there's no remedie, the Gentleman will for his honors ſake haue one bowt with you: he cannot by the Duello avoide it: but hee has promiſed me, as he is a Gentleman and a Soldiour, he will not hurt you.

   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     the duello or monomachia

   • 1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:

     The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.

• code duello

• deloul

From Latin duellum.

• IPA^(key): /duˈɛl.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: du‧èl‧lo

duello m (plural duelli)

1. duel

• duellare

• → English: duello
• → Ottoman Turkish: دووللو (düvello)
  • Turkish: düello

duello

1. first-person singular present indicative of duellare

• duello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From duellum +‎ -ō.

duellō (present infinitive duellāre, perfect active duellāvī, supine duellātum); first conjugation

1. (intransitive) to duel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duellō

1. dative/ablative singular of duellum