different between competitor vs disputant

English

Alternative forms

• competitour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

Noun

competitor (plural competitors)

1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.
2. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

Synonyms

• (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)

• (participant in a competition): contestant

Related terms

• compete
• competition
• competitive

Translations

Anagrams

• optometric, potometric, topometric

Latin

Alternative forms

• conpet?tor

Etymology

From compet? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom.pe?ti?.tor/, [k?mp??t?i?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.pe?ti.tor/, [k?mp??t?i?t??r]

Noun

compet?tor m (genitive compet?t?ris, feminine compet?tr?x); third declension

1. a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
2. (by extension) plaintiff

   Synonym: pet?tor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• competitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• competitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• competitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• competitor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compétiteur, Latin competitor.

Noun

competitor m (plural competitori)

1. competitor

Related terms

• competi?ie
• competitiv

English

Etymology

dispute +? -ant

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /d??spjut?nt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??spju?.t?nt/

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.

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.

Catalan

Verb

disputant

1. present participle of disputar

French

Verb

disputant

1. present participle of disputer

Latin

Verb

disputant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disput?