mediator

• mediatour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin mediātor (“one who mediates”), from mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).

• (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.
• “mediator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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mediator c (singular definite mediatoren, plural indefinite mediatorer)

1. mediator

• “mediator” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈaː.tor/, [mɛd̪iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈa.tor/, [med̪iˈäːt̪or]

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’s 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, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mediator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

mediator m (plural mediatori, feminine equivalent mediatoare)

1. mediator, intermediary

   Synonyms: intermediar, mijlocitor