coadjutor

English

Etymology

From Old French coadjutor, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/, /kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

1. An assistant or helper.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174:

     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.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 206–7:

     The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     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.

2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
   • 1842, John Henry Newman, The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:

     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

   • 2005, James Martin Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God:

     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.

Derived terms

• bishop coadjutor
• coadjutor bishop
• coadjutorship
• coadjutress

 

Translations

assistant — see assistant

assistant to a bishop

• French: coadjuteur (fr) m
• German: Koadjutor m
• Indonesian: koajutor
• Italian: coadiutore (it) m
• Russian: коадъютор (ru) m (koadʺjutor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коа̀дјӯтор m

  Roman: koàdjūtor (sh) m

• Spanish: coadjutor m

Galician

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores, feminine coadjutora, feminine plural coadjutoras, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of coadxutor

Further reading

• “coadjutor” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coadiūtōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koadxuˈtoɾ/ [ko.að̞.xuˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: co‧ad‧ju‧tor

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores)

1. coadjutor

Derived terms

• coadjutoría

 

Further reading

• “coadjutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10