loquitur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.
Verb
[edit]loquitur
- (stage direction) Speaks.
- 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1949, →OCLC, page 54:
- R.D. loquitur: Clarice has omitted to tell you that she looked exceedingly pretty at dinner, and made a conquest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “loquitur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]loquitur