# assessor
## English
### Alternative forms

* assessour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English assessour, from Old French assessour, from Latin assessor (“assistant judge; assessor of taxes”). Cognate with French assesseur.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈsɛsə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /əˈsɛsɚ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /əˈsesə/

### Noun

assessor (plural assessors)
* One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
* (law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
* A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.
    Synonym: tax assessor
* One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.
* (UK, Oxford University) An official responsible for student welfare.

#### Derived terms

* assessorship
* coassessor
* interassessor

#### Translations

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## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assessōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.səˈso]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.seˈsoɾ]

### Adjective

assessor (feminine assessora, masculine plural assessors, feminine plural assessores)
* (law) who assesses

### Noun

assessor m (plural assessors, feminine assessora)
* (law) assessor

#### Derived terms

* assessorar
* assessoria

### Further reading

* “assessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “assessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “assessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* adsessor

### Etymology

assessus, perfect passive participle of assideō (“to sit near”) +‎ -tor; literally, “he who sits near”.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /asˈses.sor/, [äs̠ˈs̠ɛs̠ːɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /asˈses.sor/, [äsˈsɛsːor]

### Noun

assessor m (genitive assessōris); third declension
* aide, assistant judge
* (Late Latin) assessor of taxes

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: assessor
* → German: Assessor
* Italian: assessore
* → Occitan: assessor
* Old French: assessour
** French: assesseur
** → English: assessor
* Romanian: asesor
* Spanish: asesor
* → Swedish: assessor
* → Translingual: Assessor

### References

* “assessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* assessor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.seˈsoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.seˈsoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sɨˈsoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sɨˈsoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sɨˈso.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: as‧se‧sor

### Noun

assessor m (plural assessores, feminine assessora, feminine plural assessoras)
* consultant, adviser
    Synonyms: consultor, conselheiro
* (by extension) an advising organ

#### Related terms

* assessoria
* assessorar

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin assessor, from ad (“with”) + sedere (“to sit”). Cognate of English assessor, French assesseur. Compare Swedish bisittare.

### Noun

assessor c
* an associate judge, a deputy judge (at a court of appeal)

#### Related terms

* hovrättsassessor

### References

* assessor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* assessor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* assessor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* assessor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)