the.com/arbiter
The middleman who gets the final word precisely because nobody trusts the other guy.
means A person with the authority to settle a dispute or judge what is correct, whose decision is treated as final.
from Straight from the Latin arbiter, meaning a judge, umpire, or onlooker brought in to settle a matter. The early sense leaned on the idea of someone who goes to a scene to see for himself before ruling — possibly built from ad- (to) and a root tied to going or approaching. Rome loved the figure of the arbiter as a neutral third party in legal and private quarrels, and the word kept that flavor of trusted outsider all the way into English.
- latin root
- From arbiter, meaning eyewitness or judge
- roman style
- Petronius was Nero's official arbiter of taste
- no appeal
- Arbitration rulings rarely overturn in court
- versus mediator
- Mediators suggest, arbiters decide
- elegance
- An arbiter elegantiarum dictated what's fashionable
pierre de coubertin — french educator who arbitrated the modern olympic movement's founding in 1896
international court of justice — netherlands-based court that arbitrates disputes between un member states