Meanings
verb
- stage directionSpeaks.
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.
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 54
Origin
- Latinloquitur
- Englishloquitur
Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.
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loquitur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loquitur
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