interventor

From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.

interventor (plural interventors)

1. 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 […]

2. (US) A mine inspector.

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

interventor (feminine interventora, masculine plural interventors, feminine plural interventores)

1. intervening

interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora)

1. inspector
2. auditor
3. (elections) monitor
4. (transit) ticket inspector

   Synonym: revisor

• intervenció
• intervenir

• “interventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

interveniō +‎ -tor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈu̯en.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈven.tor/,

interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension

1. visitor
2. bondsman, guarantor
3. mediator
4. (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: interventor
• → English: interventor
• Spanish: interventor

• “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)

interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)

1. comptroller

• “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014