# interventor
## English
### Etymology

From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.

### Noun

interventor (plural interventors)
* 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 […]
* (US) A mine inspector.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

### Adjective

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

### Noun

interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora)
* inspector
* auditor
* (elections) monitor
* (transit) ticket inspector
    Synonym: revisor

### Related terms

* intervenció
* intervenir

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

interveniō +‎ -tor

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /in.terˈu̯en.tor/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /in.terˈven.tor/, [in̪t̪erˈvɛn̪t̪or]

### Noun

interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension
* visitor
* bondsman, guarantor
* mediator
* (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: interventor
* → English: interventor
* Spanish: interventor

### References

* “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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teɦ.vẽˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teɦ.vẽˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.teɾ.vẽˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.vẽˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teʁ.vẽˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teɻ.vẽˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.vẽˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.vẽˈtoɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.bẽˈtoɾ/ [ĩ.tɨɾ.βẽˈtoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.vẽˈto.ɾi/

### Noun

interventor m (plural interventores)
* Synonym of interveniente
* (Brazil, historical) state governor during the Vargas Era

### Further reading

* “interventor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
* “interventor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
* “interventor”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024

## Spanish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inteɾbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]

### Noun

interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)
* comptroller
* (elections) monitor

### Further reading

* “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28