coadjutor
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coadjutor
- /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ UK
- /kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/ UK
Where it comes from
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.
noun coadjutors
- An assistant or helper. 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.
- An assistant to a bishop. 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
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noun assistant to a bishop
| Español | coadjutor |
|---|---|
| Français | coadjuteur |
| Deutsch | Koadjutor |
| Italiano | coadiutore |
| Русский | коадъютор koadʺjutor |
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