Where does “arbitration” come from?
arbitration (Old French) comes from Latin arbitratio, from Latin arbitrari, from Latin arbitror, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
Ancestry of “arbitration”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | arbitratio | — |
| 2 | Latin | arbitrari | present active infinitive of arbitror; to be a... |
| 3 | Latin | arbitror | I judge; I witness, observe; I believe, think,... |
| 4 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |