disputant
/dɪˈspjutənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A participant in a dispute.
adj
Example Sentences
- "1893, Henry James, Collaboration https://web.archive.org/web/20061013012124/http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm 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."
- "[...] [T]here was found / Among the graveſt Rabbies diſputant / On points and queſtions fitting Moſes Chair, / Teaching not taught; [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. 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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈspjutənt/
- British English: /dɪˈspjuːtənt/