interlocutor

English

Alternative forms

• interlocutour (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəˈlɒkjʊtə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈlɑkjətəɹ/

Etymology 1

A noun-form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).

Noun

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, p. 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, p. 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.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

Terms related to interlocutor

• interlocution
• interlocutorily

• interlocutory
• interlocutress

• interlocutrice
• interlocutrix

Translations

A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: həmsöhbət
• Belarusian: суразмо́ўца m (surazmóŭca), размо́ўца m (razmóŭca), субясе́днік m (subjasjédnik)
• Bulgarian: събеседник (bg) m (sǎbesednik)
• Catalan: interlocutor m, interlocutora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對話者／对话者 (duìhuàzhě), 对话者 (duìhuàzhě), 對談者／对谈者 (duìtánzhě), 对谈者 (duìtánzhě)

• Danish: samtalepartner c
• Dutch: gesprekspartner (nl)
• Finnish: keskustelutoveri, keskustelukumppani
• French: interlocuteur (fr) m, interlocutrice (fr) f
• Galician: interlocutor m
• German: Gesprächspartner (de) m
• Greek: συνομιλητής (el) m (synomilitís)
• Hebrew: בת־שיח f, בן־שיח m
• Hindi: सामनेवाला m (sāmnevālā), सामनेवाली f (sāmnevālī), बात करनेवाला m (bāt karnevālā), बात करनेवाली f (bāt karnevālī)
• Hungarian: beszélgetőpartner, beszélgetőtárs
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• Icelandic: viðmælandi m
• Italian: interlocutore (it) m
• Japanese: 対話者 (たいわしゃ, taiwasha), 対談者 (たいだんしゃ, taidansha)
• Korean: 대화자 (ko) (daehwaja) (對話者 (ko))
• Macedonian: соговорник m (sogovornik), соговорничка f (sogovornička)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samtalepartner m

• Persian: طرف صحبت (taraf-e sohbat)
• Polish: rozmówca (pl) m, rozmówczyni f, interlokutor (pl) m, interlokutorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: interlocutor (pt) m
• Romanian: interlocutor (ro) m, interlocutoare (ro) f
• Russian: собесе́дник (ru) m (sobesédnik), собесе́дница (ru) f (sobesédnica)
• Serbo-Croatian: саговорник m, sagovornik m, суговорник m, sugovornik (sh) m, саговорница f, sagovornica f, суговорница, sugovornica (sh) f
• Slovene: sogovornik m
• Spanish: interlocutor (es) m
• Ukrainian: співбесі́дник m (spivbesídnyk), співрозмо́вник m (spivrozmóvnyk)

A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show

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Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French interlocutoire, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interlocūtōrium.

Noun

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.

Translations

Scottish law: decree of a court

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Catalan

Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutors, feminine interlocutora)

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

Further reading

• “interlocutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interlocutor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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Portuguese

Noun

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

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

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Spanish

Noun

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^[1]:

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

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