mediator

See also: Mediator, médiator, and mediátor

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• mediatour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mediator ‎(plural mediators)

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

SynonymsEdit

• negotiator

Related termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

one who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement

• Catalan: tercer (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: zprostředkovatel m, mediátor m
• Dutch: tussenpersoon (nl) m
• Finnish: neuvottelija (fi), sovittelija (fi), välittäjä (fi)
• French: médiateur (fr) m
• Galician: mediador (gl) m
• German: Vermittler m
• Greek: μεσάζων (el) m ‎(mesázon), διαμεσολαβητής m ‎(diamesolavitís)
• Hebrew: מְתַוֵּךְ m ‎(metavéch)
• Hungarian: közvetítő (hu)
• Italian: mediatore (it) m

• Maori: takawaenga
• 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
• Swahili: mpatanishi (sw)
• Swedish: medlare (sv) c
• Telugu: మధ్యవర్తి (te) ‎(madhyavarti)

External linksEdit

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

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈaː.tor/, [mɛ.dɪˈaː.tɔr]

NounEdit

mediātor m ‎(genitive mediātōris); third declension

1. mediator, intermediary, go-between

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mediātor	mediātōrēs
genitive	mediātōris	mediātōrum
dative	mediātōrī	mediātōribus
accusative	mediātōrem	mediātōrēs
ablative	mediātōre	mediātōribus
vocative	mediātor	mediātōrēs

DescendantsEdit

• English: mediator
• French: médiateur, médiator
• Italian: mediatore, mezzadro
• Portuguese: mediador

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

ReferencesEdit

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

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin mediātor.

NounEdit

mediator m ‎(plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator, intermediary

SynonymsEdit

• intermediar, mijlocitor

Related termsEdit

• media