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obiter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English

Syllables
obiter
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Incidentally; in passing.

Formal

noun

An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i) Proto-Italic *op Latin ob Latin ob- Latin iter Latin obiterbor. English obiter Borrowed from Latin obiter.

Usage

Inflected Forms

obiters (plural)

Phrases

obiter scriptum

Frequently Paired Words

obiter scriptum ratio decidendi ratio

Questions

What does obiter mean?
Incidentally; in passing.
Where does obiter come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i) Proto-Italic *op Latin ob Latin ob- Latin iter Latin obiterbor. English obiter Borrowed from Latin obiter.

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