Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

interventor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-ven-tor
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers.

noun

A mine inspector.

American usage

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"The Paraguayan Government took over responsibility for the working on August 1, and appointed an interventor supervising operation."

Etymology

From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: interventor

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

interventors (plural)

Questions

What does interventor mean?: One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers.
Where does interventor come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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