mediator

• mediatour (obsolete)

From Middle English mediatour, mediatoure, mediatur, medyatour, from Middle French mediateur, mediatur or its etymon Latin mediātor (“one who mediates”), from mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).^[1] By surface analysis, mediate +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmidieɪtɚ/

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mediator (plural mediators)

1. One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.
2. A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell.

• negotiator

• (female): mediatress, mediatrix

• “mediator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mediator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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mediator c (singular definite mediatoren, plural indefinite mediatorer)

1. mediator

• “mediator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Learned borrowing from Latin mediātor.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /mediˈator/ [me.diˈa.t̪ɔr]
• Rhymes: -ator
• Syllabification: me‧di‧a‧tor

mediator (plural mediator-mediator)

1. mediator
   1. one who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement

      Synonyms: penengah, pengantara, perantara

   2. (biochemistry) a chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell

• “mediator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From mediō (“be in the middle”) +‎ -tor, from medius (“middle”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.diˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.diˈaː.tor]

mediātor m (genitive mediātōris, feminine mediātrīx); third declension

1. mediator, intermediary, go-between

Third-declension noun.

• “mediator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mediator", 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)
• “mediator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin mediātor.

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈdja.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: me‧dia‧tor

mediator m pers (female equivalent mediatorka)

1. mediator (one who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement)

   Synonym: rozjemca

   Hypernym: pośrednik

2. (law) mediator (person who professionally listens to the conflicting parties and tries to reach a settlement, which sometimes helps avoid a court case)

mediator m inan

1. (biochemistry, neuroscience) mediator (chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell)

   Synonyms: neuromediator, neuroprzekaźnik, neurotransmiter

• “mediator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “mediator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Latin mediātor. Equivalent to media +‎ -tor.

mediator m (plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator, intermediary

   Synonyms: intermediar, mijlocitor