Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
[ad_1] noun
- a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.
- a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.
noun Latin.
- a judge of elegance or matters of taste.
noun
- a person empowered to judge in a dispute; referee; arbitrator
- a person having complete control of something
late 14c., from Old French arbitre or directly from Latin arbiter “one who goes somewhere (as witness or judge),” in classical Latin used of spectators and eye-witnesses, in law, “he who hears and decides a case, a judge, umpire, mediator;” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + baetere “to come, go.” The specific sense of “one chosen by two disputing parties to decide the matter” is from 1540s. The earliest form of the word attested in English is the fem. noun arbitress (mid-14c.) “a woman who settles disputes.”