mediator

See also: Mediator, médiator, and mediátor

English

Alternative forms

• mediatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediātor (“one who mediates”), from mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmidieɪtɚ/

Noun

mediator (plural mediators)

1. One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.
2. A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell.

Synonyms

• negotiator

Hyponyms

• (female): mediatress, mediatrix

Related terms

• mean
• median
• mediate
• mediation
• mediatorial
• mediatorian
• mediatorship
• mediatrix
• medium

 

Translations

one who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement

• Azerbaijani: vasitəçi
• Bulgarian: посредник (bg) m (posrednik)
• Catalan: tercer (ca), mediador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調解人 (zh), 调解人 (zh) (tiáojiěrén)

• Czech: zprostředkovatel m, mediátor m
• Danish: mediator c
• Dutch: bemiddelaar (nl) m, tussenpersoon (nl) m
• Finnish: neuvottelija (fi), sovittelija (fi), välittäjä (fi)
• French: médiateur (fr) m
• Galician: mediador (gl) m
• German: Vermittler (de) m
• Greek: μεσάζων (el) m (mesázon), διαμεσολαβητής (el) m (diamesolavitís)

  Ancient Greek: μεσίτης m (mesítēs)

• Hebrew: מְתַוֵּךְ‎ m (metavéch)

• Hungarian: közvetítő (hu), mediátor (hu)
• Italian: mediatore (it) m
• Latin: interpres m or f, agaga m, mediātor m
• Maori: takawaenga, kaitakawaenga
• Portuguese: mediador (pt) m
• Romanian: mediator (ro) m
• Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-mheadhanair
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀среднӣк m, по̀средница f

  Roman: pòsrednīk (sh) m, pòsrednica (sh) f

• Spanish: mediador (es) m, tercero en discordia
• Swahili: mpatanishi (sw)
• Swedish: medlare (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagapamagitan
• Telugu: మధ్యవర్తి (te) (madhyavarti)

Further reading

• mediator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mediator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• admire to

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Danish

Noun

mediator c (singular definite mediatoren, plural indefinite mediatorer)

1. mediator

Declension

Declension of mediator

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mediator	mediatoren	mediatorer	mediatorerne
genitive	mediators	mediatorens	mediatorers	mediatorernes

Further reading

• “mediator” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Latin

Etymology

From mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈaː.tor/, [mɛd̪iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈa.tor/, [mɛd̪iˈɑːt̪ɔr]

Noun

mediātor m (genitive mediātōris, feminine mediātrīx); third declension

1. mediator, intermediary, go-between

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mediātor	mediātōrēs
Genitive	mediātōris	mediātōrum
Dative	mediātōrī	mediātōribus
Accusative	mediātōrem	mediātōrēs
Ablative	mediātōre	mediātōribus
Vocative	mediātor	mediātōrēs

Descendants

• Danish: mediator
• English: mediator
• French: médiateur, médiator
• Italian: mediatore, mezzadro

• Portuguese: mediador
• Romanian: mediator
• Russian: медиа́тор (mediátor)
• Spanish: mediador

References

• mediator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• mediator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mediator in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediātor.

Noun

mediator m (plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator#English, intermediary

Synonyms

• intermediar, mijlocitor

Related terms

• media