Where does “arbitrar” come from?

arbitrar (Portuguese) comes from Latin arbitror, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

arbitrar (Portuguese): to referee

Definitions

  1. to referee

Ancestry of “arbitrar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinarbitrorI judge; I witness, observe; I believe, think,...
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “arbitrar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin arbitror →