árbitro
Portuguese, noun
árbitro is spelled Á-R-B-I-T-R-O (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,515th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Árbitro is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “referee (umpire, judge, the supervisor of a game)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, arbitro is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of arbitrar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que fiscaliza e faz cumprir as leis do jogo intervindo quando as mesmas são violadas”.
What does árbitro mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinereferee (umpire, judge, the supervisor of a game)
- 2
femininemasculinereferee (person who settles a dispute)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of arbitrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquele que fiscaliza e faz cumprir as leis do jogo intervindo quando as mesmas são violadas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of árbitro
- árbitros plural
- árbitra feminine
- árbitras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to árbitro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is árbitro in Portuguese?
árbitro appears 9.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).