English Explanatory Dictionary

arbiter elegantiarum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An authority on manners or etiquette.

Word forms

arbiter elegantiarum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin arbiter (“judge”, noun) + Latin ēlegantiārum (“of elegance”, noun form) (genitive plural of ēlegantia); originally applied to Petronius in the court of Nero.

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