intercessor

English

Alternative forms

• intercessour (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

Noun

intercessor (plural intercessors)

1. A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
2. A middleman, intermediary
   • 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough‎^[1]:

     Kings were revered, in many cases not merely as priests, that is, as intercessors between man and god, but as themselves gods

3. A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

Related terms

• intercede
• intercession
• intercessory

Translations

one who intercedes

• Bulgarian: посредник (bg) m (posrednik), застъпник (bg) m (zastǎpnik)
• Catalan: intercessor m
• French: intercesseur (fr) m, intercessrice (fr) f
• Hebrew: שְׁתַדְּלָן‎ m (sh'tadlán)
• Portuguese: intercessor (pt) m
• Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik), посре́дница (ru) f (posrédnica)
• Spanish: intercesor m
• Ukrainian: заступник m (zastupnyk)
• Yiddish: שתּדלן‎ m (shtadlen)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intercessor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.təɾ.səˈso/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.tər.səˈso/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.teɾ.seˈsoɾ/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora)

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

Adjective

intercessor (feminine intercessora, masculine plural intercessors, feminine plural intercessores)

1. interceding (that intercedes)

Related terms

• intercedir

Further reading

• “intercessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intercessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “intercessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intercessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈkes.sor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [in̪t̪erˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

Noun

intercessor m (genitive intercessōris, feminine intercestrīx); third declension

1. mediator, intercessor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	intercessor	intercessōrēs
Genitive	intercessōris	intercessōrum
Dative	intercessōrī	intercessōribus
Accusative	intercessōrem	intercessōrēs
Ablative	intercessōre	intercessōribus
Vocative	intercessor	intercessōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: intercessor
• Galician: intercesor
• Italian: intercessore
• Occitan: intercessor
• Portuguese: intercessor
• Spanish: intercesor

References

• “intercessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intercessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intercessor 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)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teh.seˈsoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teh.seˈsoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɾ.seˈsoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teχ.seˈsoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɻ.seˈsoɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.sɨˈsoɾ/

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessores, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessoras)

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

Related terms

• interceder

Further reading

• “intercessor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.