arbitrium
Latin
Alternative forms
- arbiterium
Noun
arbitrium n (genitive arbitriī or arbitrī); second declension
- the decision of an arbiter, arbitration
- judgement, decision, opinion
- discretion, liberal decision; arbitrary decision, whim
- mastery, dominion, authority
- Synonyms: potestās, imperium, auctōritās, diciō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
The forms that reflect /ī/ as opposed to the expected /i/ may be due to yod metathesis (/idrju > ijdru/), or indicate borrowings.
- Catalan: albir
- Old French: arvoire (“illusion; doubt”)
- Leonese: albidru (“reasoning”)
- Old Occitan: albire (“imagination, thought”)
- Occitan: aubire
- Portuguese: alvedrio (“free will”), alvitre (“suggestion, advice”)
- Spanish: albedrío (“will”)
- Sicilian: arbitru (“tool, contrivance”)
- → French: arbitre
- → Italian: arbitrio
- → Portuguese: arbítrio
- → Spanish: arbitrio
References
- “arbitrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arbitrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arbitrium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arbitrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the decision of the question rests with you: penes te arbitrium huius rei est
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: arbitrio alicuius omnia permittere
- to put the matter entirely in some one's hands: omnium rerum arbitrium alicui permittere
- just as you wish: arbitratu, arbitrio tuo
- to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum
- to come before the tribunal of the critics: in existimantium arbitrium venire (Brut. 24. 92)
- aristocracy (as a form of government): civitas, quae optimatium arbitrio regitur
- the decision of the question rests with you: penes te arbitrium huius rei est
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