disputant

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Latin putus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin putō

Latin disputo

Old French desputerbor.

Middle English disputen

English dispute

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -antbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-ndz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

Middle English -ant

English -ant

English disputant

From dispute + -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈspjuːtənt/, [dɪˈspʰjʊu̯tʰənt] ~ [dɪˈspʰjʊu̯tʰn̩t], [dɪˈspʰjʊu̯t̚n̩t]

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• Hyphenation: dis‧pu‧tant

Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

1. A participant in a dispute.
   • 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]

     One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

Derived terms

• nondisputant

Translations

participant in a dispute

• Korean: 논쟁자(論爭者) (nonjaengja)

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 89, lines 217–220:

     [...] [T]here was found / Among the graveſt Rabbies diſputant / On points and queſtions fitting Moſes Chair, / Teaching not taught; [...]

Catalan

Verb

disputant

1. gerund of disputar

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

disputant

1. present participle of disputer

Further reading

• “disputant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Verb

disputant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disputō