duello
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian duello. Doublet of duel.
Noun
[edit]duello (plural duellos or duelloes or duelli)
- (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. […], volumes (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.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]duello m (plural duelli)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]duello
Further reading
[edit]- duello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]duellō (present infinitive duellāre, perfect active duellāvī, supine duellātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) to duel
Conjugation
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]duellō
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