arbitrate

From Latin arbitratus, past participle of arbitrari (“to be a witness, act as umpire”), from arbiter (“umpire”); see arbiter.

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arbitrate (third-person singular simple present arbitrates, present participle arbitrating, simple past and past participle arbitrated)

1. To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter

   to arbitrate a disputed case

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.

2. To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
3. (mathematics, rare) To assign an arbitrary value to, or otherwise determine arbitrarily.

   We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...

• arbitrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• arbitrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

arbitrate

1. inflection of arbitrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

arbitrate f pl

1. feminine plural of arbitrato

• barattier, bratterai, ribatterà

arbitrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of arbitrātus