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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 […]
  2. (US) A mine inspector.

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

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

  1. intervening

interventor m (plural interventors, feminine interventora)

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

interveniō +‎ -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.

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

interventor m (plural interventores)

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

Learned borrowing from Latin interventor.

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

  1. comptroller
  2. (elections) monitor