interventor
English
Etymology
From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.
Noun
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 […]
- 1841, Lyman Coleman, The Antiquities of the Christian Church
- (US) A mine inspector.
Latin
Etymology
interveniō + -tor
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.terˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈven.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈvɛn̪t̪or]
Noun
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
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | interventor | interventōrēs |
Genitive | interventōris | interventōrum |
Dative | interventōrī | interventōribus |
Accusative | interventōrem | interventōrēs |
Ablative | interventōre | interventōribus |
Vocative | interventor | interventōrēs |
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)
- comptroller
Further reading
- “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014