assessor

See also: Assessor

English

Alternative forms

• assessour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛsɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈsesə/

Noun

assessor (plural assessors)

1. One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
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.

Derived terms

• assessorship
• coassessor
• interassessor

Translations

one who assesses a property

Catalan: taxador m Finnish: arvioitsija (fi), arvioija (fi), arviomies French: évaluateur (fr) m, évaluatrice (fr) f Greek: εκτιμητής (el) m (ektimitís) Ancient: τιμητής m (timētḗs) Hungarian: (for property) ingatlanbecslő, ingatlanbecsüs, ingatlanszakértő, (for loss) kárszakértő, kárbecslő (hu), kárfelmérő, (in general) becslő (hu), becsüs (hu), értékelő (hu), felmérő (hu) Italian: stimatore (it) m, stimatrice f Macedonian: проценувач m (procenuvač) Maori: kaiwāriu Norwegian: Bokmål: takstmann m Nynorsk: takstmann m Occitan: assessor m, evaluador Romanian: evaluator m, evaluatoare f Spanish: evaluador (es) m, evaluadora (es) f, tasador (es) m, tasadora (es) f

a specialist who assists the court in determining a matter

Catalan: assessor (ca) m Finnish: asessori (fi) French: assesseur (fr) m, assesseure (fr) f, assesseuse (fr) f, appréciateur (fr) m, appréciatrice (fr) f Hungarian: törvényszéki szakértő Occitan: assessor m Romanian: asesor (ro) m, asesoare (ro) f Swedish: bisittare (sv) c

tax assessor

Finnish: verotarkastaja French: répartiteur (de l’impôt) (fr) m, répartitrice (fr) f, contrôleur (des contributions) (fr) m, contrôleure (fr) f, contrôleuse (fr) f Hungarian: adóbecslő Maori: āteha Occitan: assessor m

one who assesses a project for cost evaluation

Finnish: kustannuslaskija French: estimateur (fr) m, estimatrice (fr) f Greek: εκτιμητής (el) m (ektimitís) Hungarian: (please verify) költségfelmérő, (please verify) költségbecslő Romanian: estimator m, estimatoare f

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Irish: (please verify) measúnóir m

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assessōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.səˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.seˈsoɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. (law) who assesses

Noun

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

1. (law) assessor

Derived terms

• assessorar
• assessoria

Further reading

• “assessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “assessor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “assessor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsessor

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛs.sor]

Noun

assessor m (genitive assessōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Descendants

• → Catalan: assessor
• → German: Assessor
• → Italian: assessore
• → Occitan: assessor
• → Old French: assessour
  • French: assesseur
  • → English: assessor
• → Portuguese: assessor
• → Romanian: asesor
• → Spanish: asesor
• → Swedish: assessor
• → Translingual: Assessor

References

• “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.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.seˈsoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.seˈsoʁ/ [a.seˈsoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈsoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨˈsoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨˈsoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨˈso.ɾi/

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal (Alentejo)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: as‧se‧sor

Noun

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

1. consultant, adviser

   Synonyms: consultor, conselheiro

2. (by extension) an advising organ

Related terms

• assessorar
• assessoria

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

assessor c

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

Declension

Declension of assessor

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

Related terms

• hovrättsassessor

References

• assessor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• assessor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• assessor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• assessor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)