With the etymology From dolus, pain, it has the meaning of affliction, sorrow or pity; and singularly that of feeling, anguish or affective impression that death of a person produces, especially if it belongs to the family.
Derived from another voice Latin, not entirely opposed to pain, since both cause the duellum, contraction of quasi duorum be-llum (almost or as war between two), means fight or combat between two, with equal weapons, after challenge o straight, and with intention de define a rivalry or symbolically repair a grievance.
During the Age In the Middle and early modern centuries, influenced by chivalric ideas, if not by insolence or bravado, the duel had enormous importance in the social customs of the noble classes and among military men of all ranks. Today to date, mourning has declined to the point of being looked at with disdain and even irony, having absolutely lost the fe in the Justice of the decisions by arms and by the well-founded concept that the alleged aggrieved party should not worsen his situation condition exposing oneself to scolding of the defeat, new humiliation, and irreparable damage if it is fatal.