prolocutor

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noun

A spokesman, one who speaks on behalf of others.

OriginMiddle English prolocutor →
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Meanings

nounprolocutor (plural prolocutors)

plural prolocutors

  1. A spokesman, one who speaks on behalf of others.

    Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods, Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii
  2. A speaker; a presiding officer of an assembly
  3. A speaker; a presiding officer of an assembly:
    1. A chairman of the lower house of a convocation in the Anglican Church.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishprolocutor
  2. Middle Englishprolocutor
  3. Englishprolocutor

Inherited from Middle English prolocutor, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin prōlocūtor.

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APA

prolocutor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolocutor

MLA

“prolocutor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolocutor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prolocutor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolocutor.

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