intercessor

• intercessour (obsolete)

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor,^[1] from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

intercessor (plural intercessors)

1. A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
   1. Especially: a heavenly saint who intercedes (with God) on behalf of a mere mortal.

      St Mary the Intercessor;   St Mary as intercessor

2. A middleman, intermediary
   • 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough‎^[1]:

     Kings were revered, in many cases not merely as priests, that is, as intercessors between man and god, but as themselves gods

3. A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.tər.səˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.teɾ.seˈsoɾ]
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

intercessor m (plural intercessors, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessores)

1. (law, Christianity) intercessor (one who intercedes)

intercessor (feminine intercessora, masculine plural intercessors, feminine plural intercessores)

1. (law, Christianity) interceding (that intercedes), mediating

• intercedir

• “intercessor”, 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
• “intercessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “intercessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intercessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛrˈkɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.t̪erˈt͡ʃɛs.sor]

intercessor m (genitive intercessōris, feminine intercestrīx); third declension

1. mediator, intercessor

Third-declension noun.

• “intercessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intercessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "intercessor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Latin intercessōrem.

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ces‧sor

intercessor m (plural intercessores, feminine intercessora, feminine plural intercessoras)

1. intercessor (one who intercedes)

• interceder

• “intercessor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025