different between mediator vs xeer

English

Alternative forms

• mediatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?tor (“one who mediates”), from medi?tum, supine of medi? (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?midie?t?/

Noun

mediator (plural mediators)

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

Synonyms

• negotiator

Hyponyms

• (female): mediatress, mediatrix

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• admire to

Danish

Noun

mediator c (singular definite mediatoren, plural indefinite mediatorer)

1. mediator

Declension

Further reading

• “mediator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

From medi?tum, supine of medi? (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.di?a?.tor/, [m?d?i?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.di?a.tor/, [m?d?i???t??r]

Noun

medi?tor m (genitive medi?t?ris, feminine medi?tr?x); third declension

1. mediator, intermediary, go-between

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• mediator in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?tor.

Noun

mediator m (plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator#English, intermediary

Synonyms

• intermediar, mijlocitor

Related terms

• media

English

Noun

xeer (uncountable)

1. The traditional legal system of Somalia, believed to predate Islam, in which elders serve as mediators and people are responsible for the actions of their families.
   • 2005, Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus, Shattering tradition: custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

     In rural areas, there is still confusion between xeer and shari'a.

   • 2007, Lars Buur, Helene Maria Kyed, State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa

     The key feature of the xeer is its common law character...