coadjutor
/kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ noun
Forms coadjutors
- noun An assistant or helper.
- noun (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
- noun The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.
Etymology [L. See Co-, and Aid.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “coadjutor”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details