assessor

• assessour (obsolete)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈsesə/

assessor (plural assessors)

1. One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
2. (law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
3. A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.

   Synonym: tax assessor

4. One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.
5. (UK, Oxford University) An official responsible for student welfare.

Borrowed from Latin assessōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.səˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.seˈsoɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

assessor (feminine assessora, masculine plural assessors, feminine plural assessores)

1. (law) who assesses

assessor m (plural assessors, feminine assessora, feminine plural assessores)

1. (law) assessor

• “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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• adsessor

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛs.sor]

assessor m (genitive assessōris); third declension

1. aide, assistant judge
2. (Late Latin) assessor of taxes

Third-declension noun.

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

• “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.

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

• Audio (Alentejo, Portugal):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: as‧se‧sor

assessor m (plural assessores, feminine assessora, feminine plural assessoras)

1. consultant, adviser

   Synonyms: consultor, conselheiro

2. (by extension) an advising organ

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

assessor c

1. an associate judge, a deputy judge (at a court of appeal)

• 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)