interlocutor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.

   Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.

2. 2
   noun

   A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.

   The "interlocutor" greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the "end men," named Tambo and Bones.

3. 3
   noun

   A decree of a court.

   A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree (interlocutor) of the Scottish Court of Session in England.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin interlocūtor, from the agent noun counterpart (via the suffix -tor) of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).

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