intercessor
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- intercessour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor,[1] from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
intercessor (plural intercessors)
- A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
- 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
- A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
one who intercedes
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “intercessor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin intercessor.
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /in.təɾ.səˈso/
- (Central) IPA(key): /in.tər.səˈso/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /in.teɾ.seˈsoɾ/
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor
NounEdit
intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora)
- intercessor (one who intercedes)
AdjectiveEdit
intercessor (feminine intercessora, masculine plural intercessors, feminine plural intercessores)
- interceding (that intercedes)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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.
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.terˈkes.sor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [in̪t̪erˈt͡ʃɛsːor]
NounEdit
intercessor m (genitive intercessōris, feminine intercestrīx); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | intercessor | intercessōrēs |
Genitive | intercessōris | intercessōrum |
Dative | intercessōrī | intercessōribus |
Accusative | intercessōrem | intercessōrēs |
Ablative | intercessōre | intercessōribus |
Vocative | intercessor | intercessōrēs |
DescendantsEdit
- Catalan: intercessor
- Galician: intercesor
- Italian: intercessore
- Occitan: intercessor
- Portuguese: intercessor
- Spanish: intercesor
ReferencesEdit
- “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)
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor
NounEdit
intercessor m (plural intercessores, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessoras)
- intercessor (one who intercedes)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “intercessor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.