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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

árbitro

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈaɾ.bwi.tɾu/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Arbiter/ˈɑːr.bɪ.tər/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O árbitro foi chamado para decidir a questão."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person appointed to judge a dispute or settle a difference between parties.

    "Both sides agreed to let an independent arbiter resolve the contract wage dispute."
  2. 2

    A person whose views or actions have influential sway over what is done or accepted in a particular field.

    "Paris has long been considered the ultimate arbiter of high fashion."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'arbiter', meaning a witness, spectator, or judge. Entering Middle English in the 15th century via Old French, the term evolved from signifying a general observer or supreme ruler to specifically denoting an independent person appointed to settle a dispute.

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