🇵🇹 Portuguese

árbitro

masculine

o árbitro

referee

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árbitro
/u ˈaʁbitɾu/
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How do you say árbitro in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈaʁbitɾu/

How do you pronounce árbitro in Portuguese?

árbitro is pronounced /u ˈaʁbitɾu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O árbitro experiente foi muito justo na decisão final do jogo.

The experienced referee was very fair in the final decision of the game.

O árbitro português chegou atrasado e teve que apitar rapidamente.

The Portuguese referee arrived late and had to whistle quickly.

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Why is it masculine?

Árbitro is masculine because it derives from Latin "arbiter" (masculine noun meaning "judge" or "one who decides"), which retained its masculine gender through Portuguese phonetic evolution. The Latin masculine ending -er naturally evolved into the Portuguese masculine ending -o, preserving the original gender assignment.

What is the Portuguese word for referee?

The Portuguese word for referee is o árbitro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frencharbitrel'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishárbitroelmasculine

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