coadjutor

coadjutor

English

Etymology

From Old French coadjuteur, from Latin coadiūtor, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊəˈdʒuːtə/, /kəʊˈadʒʊtə/

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

1. An assistant or helper.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 174:

     Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:

     The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12,

     Hitherto I have been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think now to take another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion.

2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
   • 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:

     When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem

   • 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:

     August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.

Derived terms

• coadjutor bishop

Translations

assistant — see assistant

assistant to a bishop

French: coadjuteur (fr) m German: Koadjutor m Indonesian: koajutor Russian: коадъютор (ru) m (koadʺjutor) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: коа̀дјӯтор m Roman: koàdjūtor (sh) m Spanish: coadjutor m

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Spanish

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores)

1. coadjutor

Further reading

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