Where does “arbitraire” come from?
arbitraire (French) comes from Italian arbitrario, from Latin arbitrarius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
arbitraire (French): arbitrary
Definitions
- arbitrary
Ancestry of “arbitraire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | arbitrario | arbitrary |
| 2 | Latin | arbitrarius | arbitrating; arbitrary |
| 3 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |