The story
- Latin · borrowed fromēlegantiārum
- Latin · learned borrowing fromarbiter
- English todayarbiter elegantiarum
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.