# arbitrar
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ər.biˈtɾa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aɾ.biˈtɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧trar
* Homophone: arbitrà (except Valencian)

### Verb

arbitrar (first-person singular present arbitro, first-person singular preterite arbitrí, past participle arbitrat)
* (transitive) to arbitrate
* to referee (to act as a referee)

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “arbitrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “arbitrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “arbitrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “arbitrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾbiˈtɾaɾ/ [aɾ.β̞iˈt̪ɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧trar

### Verb

arbitrar (first-person singular present arbitro, first-person singular preterite arbitrei, past participle arbitrado)
* (transitive) to arbitrate
* to referee (to act as a referee)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### Further reading

* “arbitrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arbitrārī.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aʁ.biˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [aɦ.biˈtɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aʁ.biˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [aɦ.biˈtɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /aɾ.biˈtɾa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /aʁ.biˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [aʁ.biˈtɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aɻ.biˈtɾa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐɾ.biˈtɾaɾ/ [ɐɾ.βiˈtɾaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐɾ.biˈtɾaɾ/ [ɐɾ.βiˈtɾaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐɾ.biˈtɾa.ɾi/ [ɐɾ.βiˈtɾa.ɾi]

### Verb

arbitrar (first-person singular present arbitro, first-person singular preterite arbitrei, past participle arbitrado)
* to referee (to act as a referee)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* arbitrário

### Further reading

* “arbitrar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French arbitraire, from Latin arbitrarius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ar.biˈtrar/

### Adjective

arbitrar m or n (feminine singular arbitrară, masculine plural arbitrari, feminine and neuter plural arbitrare)
* arbitrary

#### Declension
### Further reading

* arbitrar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arbitrārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾbiˈtɾaɾ/ [aɾ.β̞iˈt̪ɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ar‧bi‧trar

### Verb

arbitrar (first-person singular present arbitro, first-person singular preterite arbitré, past participle arbitrado)
* (transitive) to arbitrate (to make a judgment on as an arbitrator or arbiter)
* (intransitive, transitive) to referee; to umpire

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* arbitraje
* arbitramento

#### Related terms

* arbitrador
* arbitrio
* árbitro

### Further reading

* “arbitrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10