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See also: Dispute and disputé

English

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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

dispute (plural disputes)

  1. 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.
  2. (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.

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Verb

dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)

  1. (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."
  2. (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.
  3. 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
  4. to strive or contend about; to contest
    • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
      to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
  5. (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist

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French

Etymology

From Latin disputāre.

Pronunciation

Noun

dispute f (plural disputes)

  1. dispute

Descendants

  • → Romanian: dispută

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdis.pu.te/
  • Rhymes: -ispute
  • Hyphenation: dì‧spu‧te

Noun

dispute f

  1. plural of disputa

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

dispute

  1. inflection of disputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

dispute f

  1. inflection of dispută:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /disˈpute/ [d̪isˈpu.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Syllabification: dis‧pu‧te

Verb

dispute

  1. inflection of disputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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