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English
Etymology
From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈpjuːt/, /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/, /dɪsˈpjuːt/
- (verb)
- Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
dispute (plural disputes)
- An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
1964 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: BR Workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 432:A "who-does-what" labour dispute at Swindon works during April led to a stoppage of work on the construction of the new 0-6-0 Type 1 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the D9500 series and work had not been resumed as we closed for press.
- (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
argument, failure to agree
- Arabic: خِلَاف m (ḵilāf)
- Armenian: վեճ (hy) (več)
- Belarusian: спор m (spor), ды́спут m (dýsput), спрэ́чка f (spréčka), пале́міка f (paljémika)
- Bengali: বিবাদ (bn) (bibad)
- Bulgarian: спор (bg) m (spor), поле́мика (bg) f (polémika)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 爭論/争论 (zh) (zhēnglùn), 爭議/争议 (zh) (zhēngyì), 爭端/争端 (zh) (zhēngduān), 糾紛/纠纷 (zh) (jiūfēn)
- Czech: spor (cs) m
- Esperanto: disputo
- Finnish: kiista (fi)
- French: dispute (fr) f, litige (fr) m
- Galician: disputa (gl) f
- German: Streit (de) m, Disput (de) m
- Greek: διένεξη (el) f (diénexi), έριδα (el) f (érida), διαμάχη (el) f (diamáchi)
- Hindi: असहमति f (ashamti), विवाद (hi) m (vivād)
- Irish: imreas m
- Italian: disputa (it) f, lite (it) f, bega (it) f
- Japanese: 論争 (ja) (ろんそう, ronsō), 議論 (ja) (ぎろん, giron)
- Korean: 논쟁(論爭) (ko) (nonjaeng), 론쟁(論爭) (ko) (ronjaeng) (North Korea), 의논(議論) (ko) (uinon)
- Latgalian: streids
- Latvian: strīds m
- Malayalam: തർക്കം (ml) (taṟkkaṁ)
- Maori: whakatete, ngutungutu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uenighet (no) m or f, disputt m
- Ottoman Turkish: نزاع (nizaʿ), چكیش (çekiş), پرخاش (perhaş)
- Portuguese: disputa (pt) f
- Romanian: dispută (ro) f
- Russian: спор (ru) m (spor), ди́спут (ru) m (dísput), поле́мика (ru) f (polémika)
- Scottish Gaelic: connsachadh m, connspaid f
- Spanish: disputa (es) f, contencioso (es) m, disputación f
- Swedish: dispyt (sv) c
- Telugu: వివాదం (te) (vivādaṁ)
- Tibetan: རྩོད་པ (rtsod pa), རྩོད་གླེང (rtsod gleng)
- Ukrainian: спір m (spir), ди́спут m (dýsput), супере́ка f (superéka), поле́міка (uk) f (polémika)
- Waigali: pad
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Verb
dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:"Now, though thy thoughts are green and tender, as becometh one so young, yet are they those of a thinking brain, and in truth thou dost bring back to my mind certain of those old philosophers with whom in days bygone I have disputed at Athens, and at Becca in Arabia, for thou hast the same crabbed air and dusty look, as though thou hadst passed thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and been stained dark with the grime of manuscripts."
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
to dispute assertions or arguments
1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to strive or contend about; to contest
1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Derived terms
Translations
to argue pro and con; to discuss
to oppose by argument or assertion, to controvert
to strive or contend about; to contest
to struggle against; to resist
Further reading
- “dispute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dispute”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
From Latin disputāre.
Pronunciation
Noun
dispute f (plural disputes)
- dispute
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
dispute f
- plural of disputa
Anagrams
Portuguese
Verb
dispute
- inflection of disputar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
dispute f
- inflection of dispută:
- indefinite plural
- indefinite genitive/dative singular
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈpute/
- Rhymes: -ute
- Syllabification: dis‧pu‧te
Verb
dispute
- inflection of disputar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative