interlocutor

• interlocutour (obsolete)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəˈlɒkjʊtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑk.jə.təɹ/, /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑ.kə.təɹ/, /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑk.ju.təɹ/

A noun-form of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).

interlocutor (plural interlocutors)

1. A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation.
   • 1894, Calvin Thomas, "The Teacher's Outfit in German," The School Review, vol. 2, no. 7, page 406:

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

2. A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader.
   • 1991, Maureen Costonis, "Martha Graham's American Document: A Minstrel Show in Modern Dance Dress," American Music, vol. 9, no. 3, page 299:

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

3. (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.

• (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation): converser, conversant, conversationalist, conversational partner, collocutor

From French interlocutoire, from Latin interlocūtōrium.

interlocutor (plural interlocutors)

1. (Scotland, law) A decree of a court.
   • 1869, "The Judicial System of Scotland," The American Law Register (1852-1891), vol. 17, no. 5, p. 257,

     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.

interlocutor m (plural interlocutors, feminine interlocutora)

1. interlocutor (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation)

• “interlocutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interlocutor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “interlocutor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interlocutor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

interlocutor m (plural interlocutores, feminine interlocutora, feminine plural interlocutoras)

1. interlocutor (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation)

From French interlocuteur.

interlocutor m (plural interlocutori)

1. interlocutor

• IPA^(key): /inteɾlokuˈtoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.lo.kuˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧lo‧cu‧tor

interlocutor m (plural interlocutores, feminine interlocutora, feminine plural interlocutoras)

1. interlocutor
   • 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand, "The Other", p. 19:

     Los dos mentíamos y cada cual sabía que su interlocutor estaba mintiendo.

     We were both lying and each one of us knew that his interlocutor was lying.

2. negotiator
   • 2009 June 10, “Gadafi levanta una tienda en Roma”, in BBC Mundo‎:

     Gadafi recibirá a sus interlocutores en una carpa de estilo beduino...

     Gadafi will receive his negotiators with a Bedouin-style carpet...

• “interlocutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014