Etymograph

English

adjutor

Adjutor comes from Latin adiūtor ‘helper, assistant’, and goes back to adiuvō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiuvō1‘help, assist’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūtor1‘helper, assistant’
  3. Englishtodayadjutor1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English adjutor

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiuvōWiktionary, English adjutor‘help, assist’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūtorWiktionary, English adjutor‘helper, assistant’
  3. EnglishtodayadjutorWiktionary, English adjutor

Linked words

through Latin adiuvō ‘help, assist’

aid, jury, aide, 10 more

Another origin of adjutor

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuvōas iuvere‘to help, aid’uncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiuvō‘to help, assist’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūtor‘helper’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūtōrium‘humerus’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600adiutoire
  6. Englishtodayadjutor

Today it means

noun An adjutant; a helper or assistant.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “adjutor”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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