intercessor

• intercessour (obsolete)

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor,^[1] from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

intercessor (plural intercessors)

1. A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
   1. Especially: a heavenly saint who intercedes (with God) on behalf of a mere mortal.

      St Mary the Intercessor;   St Mary as intercessor

2. A middleman, intermediary
   • 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough‎:

     Kings were revered, in many cases not merely as priests, that is, as intercessors between man and god, but as themselves gods

3. A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

• intercede
• intercession
• intercessory

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora)

1. (law, Christianity) intercessor (one who intercedes)

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

1. (law, Christianity) interceding (that intercedes), mediating

• intercedir

• “intercessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intercessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈkes.sor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈt͡ʃes.sor/,

intercessor m (genitive intercessōris, feminine intercestrīx); third declension

1. mediator, intercessor

Third-declension noun.

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

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

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

• interceder

• “intercessor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025