interventor

English

Etymology

From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.

Noun

interventor (plural interventors)

1. 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 […]

2. (US) A mine inspector.

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

Adjective

interventor (feminine interventora, masculine plural interventors, feminine plural interventores)

1. intervening

Noun

interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora)

1. inspector
2. auditor
3. (elections) monitor
4. (transit) ticket inspector

   Synonym: revisor

Related terms

• intervenció
• intervenir

Further reading

• “interventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Latin

Etymology

interveniō +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈven.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈvɛn̪t̪or]

Noun

interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension

1. visitor
2. bondsman, guarantor
3. mediator
4. (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	interventor	interventōrēs
Genitive	interventōris	interventōrum
Dative	interventōrī	interventōribus
Accusative	interventōrem	interventōrēs
Ablative	interventōre	interventōribus
Vocative	interventor	interventōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: interventor
• → English: interventor
• Spanish: interventor

References

• “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

Noun

interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)

1. comptroller

Further reading

• “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014