different between intercessor vs intermediator

English

Alternative forms

• intercessour (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin interc?d?, from inter (“between”) + c?d? (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?(?)?s?s?(?)/

Noun

intercessor (plural intercessors)

1. A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
2. A middleman, intermediary
3. A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

Related terms

• intercede
• intercession
• intercessory

Translations

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intercessor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.t??.s??so/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.t?r.s??so/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.te?.se?so?/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?ces?sor

Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora)

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

Adjective

intercessor (feminine intercessora, masculine plural intercessors, feminine plural intercessores)

1. interceding (that intercedes)

Related terms

• intercedir

Further reading

• “intercessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intercessor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “intercessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intercessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.ter?kes.sor/, [?n?t??r?k?s???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.ter?t??es.sor/, [in?t??r?t???s??r]

Noun

intercessor m (genitive intercess?ris, feminine intercestr?x); third declension

1. mediator, intercessor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• intercessor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• intercessor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intercessor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin intercessor.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?te?se?so(?)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t??se?so?/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?ces?sor

Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessores, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessoras)

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

Related terms

• interceder

Further reading

• “intercessor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Noun

intermediator (plural intermediators)

1. An intermediate agent; a mediator.

Coordinate terms

• intermediatrix