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assessor

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English assessour, from Old French assessour, from Latin assessor (“assistant judge; assessor of taxes”). Cognate with French assesseur.

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Noun

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assessor (plural assessors)

  1. One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
    • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
      On that day Karsfeld, the Princess Street jeweller, y'know, who acted as our jewellery assessor, forwards a proposal of the Hon. Mrs Straithwaite to insure a pearl necklace against theft.
  2. (law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
  3. A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.
    Synonym: tax assessor
  4. One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.
  5. (UK, Oxford University) An official responsible for student welfare.
  6. (politics) A member of an executive body in Italian local government.

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin assessōrem.

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    Adjective

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    assessor (feminine assessora, masculine plural assessors, feminine plural assessores)

    1. (law) who assesses

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    assessor m (plural assessors, feminine assessora, feminine plural assessores)

    1. (law) assessor

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    Latin

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    Etymology

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    assessus, perfect passive participle of assideō (“to sit near”) +‎ -tor; literally, “he who sits near”.

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    assessor m (genitive assessōris); third declension

    1. aide, assistant judge
    2. (Late Latin) assessor of taxes

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    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative assessor assessōrēs
    genitive assessōris assessōrum
    dative assessōrī assessōribus
    accusative assessōrem assessōrēs
    ablative assessōre assessōribus
    vocative assessor assessōrēs

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    References

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

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    assessor m (plural assessores, feminine assessora, feminine plural assessoras)

    1. consultant, adviser
      Synonyms: consultor, conselheiro
    2. (by extension) an advising organ
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    Swedish

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    Etymology

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    From Latin assessor, from ad (“with”) + sedere (“to sit”). Cognate of English assessor, French assesseur. Compare Swedish bisittare.

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    assessor c

    1. an associate judge, a deputy judge (at a court of appeal)

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    Declension of assessor
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite assessor assessors
    definite assessorn assessorns
    plural indefinite assessorer assessorers
    definite assessorerna assessorernas
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