umpire
an official in charge of a sports match
TRANSLATION
umpire = der Schiedsrichter umpire = eine unparteiische Person, die bei einer Sportart mit zwei gegeneinander antretenden Parteien das Spiel oder die Veranstaltung leitet oder überwacht --- GOOGLE INDEX umpire: approximately 700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Nobody, it’s said, comes to ballgames to watch the UMPIRES.
(Washington Post)
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Stay in school kids, or you'll end up being an UMPIRE.
(Professional tennis player Andy Roddick)
(Washington Post)
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Stay in school kids, or you'll end up being an UMPIRE.
(Professional tennis player Andy Roddick)
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umpire
noun
- an official who rules on the playing of a game
(Collins Dictionary)
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Were it not for something called "false splitting," we might be calling sports officials "numpires" instead of "umpires."
The term umpire stems from the Middle English "noumpere" by way of the Old French nonper, which is made up of "non" (not) and per (equal), meaning an impartial arbiter of a dispute between two people.
Around the 15th century, there is evidence that noumpere began to be written without the "n", which became attached to the indefinite article "a". Thus "a noumpere" became "an oumpere" and eventually changed to the current form "umpire." This is what linguists mean by false splitting, which also created words like apron and adder (previously napron and naddre).
The term umpire is not used in every type of sport. For reasons that are not clear, some sports use the term "referee" instead. This includes basketball, rugby, hockey, football and American football. Baseball, cricket and tennis have umpires however.
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SYNONYMS
arbitrator, arbiter, judge, mediator, referee
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Being an umpire is a difficult job. You can't make anyone happy."
noun
- an official who rules on the playing of a game
(Collins Dictionary)
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Were it not for something called "false splitting," we might be calling sports officials "numpires" instead of "umpires."
The term umpire stems from the Middle English "noumpere" by way of the Old French nonper, which is made up of "non" (not) and per (equal), meaning an impartial arbiter of a dispute between two people.
Around the 15th century, there is evidence that noumpere began to be written without the "n", which became attached to the indefinite article "a". Thus "a noumpere" became "an oumpere" and eventually changed to the current form "umpire." This is what linguists mean by false splitting, which also created words like apron and adder (previously napron and naddre).
The term umpire is not used in every type of sport. For reasons that are not clear, some sports use the term "referee" instead. This includes basketball, rugby, hockey, football and American football. Baseball, cricket and tennis have umpires however.
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SYNONYMS
arbitrator, arbiter, judge, mediator, referee
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Being an umpire is a difficult job. You can't make anyone happy."
