Meanings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Etymology
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”).