referee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English [Term?], from past participle of Old French referer (“to relate, to refer”), from Latin referre (“to carry back, to report, to notify”); as if refer + -ee, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]referee (plural referees)
- (sports) An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
- The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.
- A person who settles a dispute.
- (UK) A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. US English: reference.
- Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.
- An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
Usage notes
[edit]- In general, and as a usage guideline, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.
Derived terms
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Verb
[edit]referee (third-person singular simple present referees, present participle refereeing, simple past and past participle refereed)
- To act as a referee.
- He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.
- She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈrefereː/, [ˈre̞fe̞re̞ː]
- IPA(key): /ˈreferiː/, [ˈre̞fe̞riː]
- Rhymes: -efereː
- Hyphenation(key): re‧fe‧ree
Noun
[edit]referee
- referee (expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published)
- Synonym: arvioija
Declension
[edit]Inflection of referee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | referee | refereet | |
genitive | refereen | refereiden refereitten | |
partitive | refereetä | refereitä | |
illative | refereehen refereeseen |
refereihin refereisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | referee | refereet | |
accusative | nom. | referee | refereet |
gen. | refereen | ||
genitive | refereen | refereiden refereitten | |
partitive | refereetä | refereitä | |
inessive | refereessä | refereissä | |
elative | refereestä | refereistä | |
illative | refereehen refereeseen |
refereihin refereisiin | |
adessive | refereellä | refereillä | |
ablative | refereeltä | refereiltä | |
allative | refereelle | refereille | |
essive | refereenä | refereinä | |
translative | refereeksi | refereiksi | |
abessive | refereettä | refereittä | |
instructive | — | referein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “referee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English referee.
Noun
[edit]referee m or f by sense (plural referees)
- Alternative form of réferi
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ee
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iː
- Rhymes:English/iː/3 syllables
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- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/efereː
- Rhymes:Finnish/efereː/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish filee-type nominals
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