coadjutor

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English

Etymology

From Old French coadjutor, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/, /kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

  1. An assistant or helper.
    • 1842, , chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, 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, published 2005, pages 206–7:
      The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:
      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.

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Galician

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores, feminine coadjutora, feminine plural coadjutoras, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of coadxutor

Further reading

  • “coadjutor” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coadiūtōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koadxuˈtoɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: co‧ad‧ju‧tor

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores)

  1. coadjutor

Derived terms

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