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Coadjutor

//kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə// noun

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Noun

1
An assistant or helper.
"Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again."
2
an assistant to a bishop wordnet
3
An assistant to a bishop.
"When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem"

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.

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