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Where does “arbitrageur” come from?

arbitrageur (English) comes from English arbitrage, from French arbitrage, from French -age, from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.

arbitrageur (English): One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial...

Definitions

  1. One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial...

Ancestry of “arbitrageur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisharbitrageA market activity in which a security, commodity,...
2Frencharbitragearbitration; arbitrage; trade-off
3French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
4Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
5Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
6Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
7Latin-āticum—
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