coadjutor
/kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again."
- "The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face."
- "Hitherto I have been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think now to take another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion."
- "When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem"
- "August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters."
Etymology
From Middle English coadjutowre, from Old French coadjuteur, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”), from adiuvō (“to help”) + -tor (agent suffix). By surface analysis, co- + adjutor. The French derivation gave the accentuation coˈadjutor (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), but the poets generally, since 1600, appear to have coaˈdjutor, after Latin. No Latin *coadiuvō or *coadiūtō is recorded, but in the modern languages words have been formed on these types, suggested by coadjutor.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: coadjutowre, coadjuteur, coadiūtor
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/