interventor

From Latin interventor. Compare French interventeur.

interventor (plural interventors)

1. One who intervenes; a mediator, especially one designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers.
   • 1841, Lyman Coleman, The Antiquities of the Christian Church:

     An effort was made, particularly in the Latin church, to correct the disorders of popular elections without taking away the rights of the people. This they did by the agency of an interventor, who was sent among the people to endeavour to unite their votes upon a given person […]

   • 1959 November, “Notes and News: The Paraguay Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:

     The Paraguayan Government took over responsibility for the working on August 1, and appointed an interventor supervising operation.

2. (US) A mine inspector.

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

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interventor (feminine interventora, masculine plural interventors, feminine plural interventores)

1. intervening

interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventores)

1. inspector
2. auditor
3. (elections) monitor
4. (transit) ticket inspector

   Synonym: revisor

• intervenció
• intervenir

• “interventor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

From interveniō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛrˈwɛn.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.terˈvɛn.tor]

interventor m (genitive interventōris); third declension

1. visitor
2. bondsman, guarantor
3. mediator
4. (Christianity) one of a group of people who administer the episcopate while the see is vacant

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: interventor
• → English: interventor
• Spanish: interventor

• “interventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interventor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "interventor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

interventor m (plural interventores)

1. synonym of interveniente
2. (Brazil, historical) state governor during the Vargas Era

• “interventor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “interventor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “interventor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

• IPA^(key): /inteɾbenˈtoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧ven‧tor

interventor m (plural interventores, feminine interventora, feminine plural interventoras)

1. comptroller
2. (elections) monitor

• “interventor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025