"coadjutor" meaning in English

See coadjutor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ [UK], /kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/ [UK] Forms: coadjutors [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|coadjutowre}} Middle English coadjutowre, {{der|en|fro|coadjuteur}} Old French coadjuteur, {{der|en|LL.|coadiūtor|coadiūtōrem}} Late Latin coadiūtōrem, {{surf|en|co-|adjutor}} By surface analysis, co- + adjutor, {{m+|la||*coadiuvō}} Latin *coadiuvō Head templates: {{en-noun}} coadjutor (plural coadjutors)
  1. An assistant or helper.
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  2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop. Translations (assistant to a bishop): coadjuteur [masculine] (French), Koadjutor [masculine] (German), koajutor (Indonesian), coadiutore [masculine] (Italian), коадъютор (koadʺjutor) [masculine] (Russian), коа̀дјӯтор [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), koàdjūtor [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), coadjutor [masculine] (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bishop coadjutor, coadjutor bishop, coadjutorship, coadjutress Related terms: coadjute

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "assistant to a bishop",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "koàdjūtor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "assistant to a bishop",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coadjutor"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
  ],
  "word": "coadjutor"
}

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