intercession

English

Etymology

[Early 15th Century] From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French intercession, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin intercessionem, from intercēdō, from inter- (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

Noun

intercession (countable and uncountable, plural intercessions)

1. The act of intervening or mediating between two parties.
2. A prayer to God on behalf of another person.

Derived terms

• intercessation of saints

Related terms

• intercede
• intercessor
• See also cede: related terms

Translations

the act of intervening

• Bulgarian: застъпничество (bg) n (zastǎpničestvo), ходатайство (bg) n (hodatajstvo)
• French: intercession (fr) f
• Hungarian: közbenjárás (hu)
• Icelandic: meðalganga f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: interceso (io)
• Portuguese: intercessão (pt) f
• Russian: посре́дничество (ru) n (posrédničestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: zagovor (sh) m, за̏гово̄р m

a prayer to God on behalf of another person

• Catalan: intercessió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: forbøn c
• French: intercession (fr) f
• Georgian: ქომაგობა (komagoba)
• German: (by an earthly person) Fürbitte (de) f; (by a saint) Fürsprache f
• Icelandic: fyrirbæn f, bænarstaður m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: intercessione (it) f
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: شفاعت (fa) (šafâ'at)
• Polish: wstawiennictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: intercessão (pt) f
• Spanish: intercesión (es) f

Anagrams

• recensionist

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French

Etymology

From Latin intercessiō.

Noun

intercession f (plural intercessions)

1. intercession

References

“intercession”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.