Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 61292 6529877 2009-05-04T12:51:45Z Tbot 44393 updated t/t-/t+ templates, added t for fi ==English== ===Etymology=== < {{etyl|la}} {{term|arbiter|lang=la||a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see}} < {{term|ar-}} for {{term|ad-||to}} + {{term|betere||to come}}. ===Pronunciation=== * {{IPA|/ˈɑːbɪtə(r)/}} * {{audio|en-us-arbiter.ogg|Audio (US)}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # 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. # (With '''of''') Any person who has the power of [[judge|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. ====Related terms==== * [[arbitrable]] * [[arbitrage]] * [[arbitrary]] * [[arbitrate]] * [[arbitration]] * [[arbitrator]] ====Translations==== {{trans-top|determine controversy}} * Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|арбитър|m|tr=arbítar|sc=Cyrl}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|välittäjä}}, {{t-|fi|sovittelija}} * French: {{t+|fr|arbitre|m}} {{trans-mid}} * German: [[Schlichter]] {{m}}, [[Schiedsrichter]] {{m}} * Russian: {{t|ru|арбитр|m|tr=arbítr|sc=Cyrl}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|judge without control}} * French: {{t+|fr|arbitre|m}} {{trans-mid}} * German: [[Gebieter]] (+[[über]]) {{m}}, [[Herr]] (+[[über]]) {{m}} {{trans-bottom}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb}} # {{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. ===External links=== * {{R:Webster 1913}} * {{R:Century 1911}} ---- ==Latin== ===Noun=== {{la-noun|arbiter|arbitri|arbitrī|m|second}} # [[master]] # {{inflection of|arbiter||voc|s|lang=la}} ====Inflection==== {{ladecl2er}} {{la-decl-2nd-ER|arbiter|arbiter|arbitr}} [[Category:Latin noun forms]] [[de:arbiter]] [[et:arbiter]] [[fr:arbiter]] [[gl:arbiter]] [[it:arbiter]] [[la:arbiter]] [[hu:arbiter]] [[pl:arbiter]] [[fi:arbiter]] [[ta:arbiter]] [[tt:arbiter]] [[te:arbiter]] [[vi:arbiter]]