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Webster 1913 Edition
Arbiter
Ar′bi-ter
,Noun.
[L.
arbiter
; ar-
(for ad
) + the root of betere
to go; hence properly, one who comes up to look on.] 1.
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.
☞ In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word.
2.
Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
For Jove is
arbiter
of both to man. Cowper.
Syn. – Arbitrator; umpire; director; referee; controller; ruler; governor.
Ar′bi-ter
,Verb.
T.
To act as arbiter between.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Arbiter
'ARBITER
,Noun.
1.
A person appointed, or chosen by parties in controversy, to decide their differences. This is its sense in the civil law. In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word.2.
In a general sense, now most common, a person who has the power of judging and determining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.3.
One that commands the destiny, or holds the empire of a nation or state.Definition 2024
arbiter
arbiter
English
Noun
arbiter (plural arbiters)
- A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
- 1931, William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local, page 495
- In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
- 1931, William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local, page 495
- (with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
- Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
- (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
Related terms
Translations
a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them
|
judge without control
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Verb
arbiter (third-person singular simple present arbiters, present participle arbitering, simple past and past participle arbitered)
- (transitive) To act as arbiter.
- 2003, Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French, page 116
- Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.
- 2003, Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French, page 116
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Possibly connected with ad- and bētō, thus originally meaning "one that goes to something in order to see or hear it".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bi.ter/, [ˈar.bɪ.tɛr]
Noun
arbiter m (genitive arbitrī); second declension
- witness, spectator, beholder, listener
- judge, arbitrator
- master, lord, ruler
- vocative singular of arbiter
Inflection
Second declension, nominative singular in -er.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | arbiter | arbitrī |
genitive | arbitrī | arbitrōrum |
dative | arbitrō | arbitrīs |
accusative | arbitrum | arbitrōs |
ablative | arbitrō | arbitrīs |
vocative | arbiter1 | arbitrī |
1May also be arbitre.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- arbiter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arbiter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arbiter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
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(ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
- arbiter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arbiter in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin