The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromstāre dēcīsīs
- English todaystare decisis
Learned borrowing from Latin stāre dēcīsīs, from stāre (“to stand; to stay, to remain”) + dēcīsīs, ablative plural of dēcīsus, from dēcidere (“to sever, to decide”). Literally, “to stand by decided matters”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.