# intercessor
## English
### Alternative forms

* intercessour (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

### Noun

intercessor (plural intercessors)
* A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
** Especially: a heavenly saint who intercedes (with God) on behalf of a mere mortal.
    St Mary the Intercessor;   St Mary as intercessor
* 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
* A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

#### Related terms

* intercede
* intercession
* intercessory

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “intercessor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [in.tər.səˈso]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.teɾ.seˈsoɾ]
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

### Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora)
* (law, Christianity) intercessor (one who intercedes)

### Adjective

intercessor (feminine intercessora, masculine plural intercessors, feminine plural intercessores)
* (law, Christianity) interceding (that intercedes), mediating

### Related terms

* intercedir

### Further reading

* “intercessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “intercessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “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.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /in.terˈkes.sor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /in.terˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [in̪t̪erˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

### Noun

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

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | intercessor | intercessōrēs |
| Genitive | intercessōris | intercessōrum |
| Dative | intercessōrī | intercessōribus |
| Accusative | intercessōrem | intercessōrēs |
| Ablative | intercessōre | intercessōribus |
| Vocative | intercessor | intercessōrēs |

#### Descendants

* Catalan: intercessor
* Galician: intercesor
* Italian: intercessore
* Occitan: intercessor
* Portuguese: intercessor
* Spanish: intercesor

### References

* “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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teh.seˈsoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teh.seˈsoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.teɾ.seˈsoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsoʁ/ [ĩ.teχ.seˈsoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teɻ.seˈsoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.sɨˈsoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.sɨˈsoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.sɨˈso.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

### Noun

intercessor m (plural intercessores, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessoras)
* intercessor (one who intercedes)

#### Related terms

* interceder

### Further reading

* “intercessor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024