intercessorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“to go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

名詞

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.

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名詞

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

1. mediator, intercessor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)