interventor
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.
Noun[edit]
interventor (plural interventors)
- One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers.
- 1841, Lyman Coleman, The Antiquities of the Christian Church:
- An effort was made, particularly in the Latin church, to correct the disorders of popular elections without taking away the rights of the people. This they did by the agency of an interventor, who was sent among the people to endeavour to unite their votes upon a given person […]
- (US) A mine inspector.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
interveniō + -tor
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.terˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈven.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈvɛn̪t̪or]
Noun[edit]
interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension
- visitor
- bondsman, guarantor
- mediator
- (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | interventor | interventōrēs |
Genitive | interventōris | interventōrum |
Dative | interventōrī | interventōribus |
Accusative | interventōrem | interventōrēs |
Ablative | interventōre | interventōribus |
Vocative | interventor | interventōrēs |
References[edit]
- “interventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interventor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)
Further reading[edit]
- “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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