interventor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.
Noun
[edit]interventor (plural interventors)
- 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 […]
- (US) A mine inspector.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.
Adjective
[edit]interventor (feminine interventora, masculine plural interventors, feminine plural interventores)
Noun
[edit]interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora)
- inspector
- auditor
- (elections) monitor
- (transit) ticket inspector
- Synonym: revisor
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “interventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]interveniō + -tor
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.terˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈven.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈvɛn̪t̪or]
Noun
[edit]interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension
- visitor
- bondsman, guarantor
- mediator
- (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | interventor | interventōrēs |
genitive | interventōris | interventōrum |
dative | interventōrī | interventōribus |
accusative | interventōrem | interventōrēs |
ablative | interventōre | interventōribus |
vocative | interventor | interventōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: interventor
- → English: interventor
- Spanish: interventor
References
[edit]- “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)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]interventor m (plural interventores)
- Synonym of interveniente
- (Brazil, historical) state governor during the Vargas Era
Further reading
[edit]- “interventor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “interventor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “interventor”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)
- comptroller
- (elections) monitor
Further reading
[edit]- “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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