# interlocutor
## English
### Alternative forms

* interlocutour (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌɪntəˈlɒkjʊtə/, /ˌɪntəˈlɒkjətə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑk.jə.təɹ/, /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑ.kə.təɹ/, /ˌɪn.təɹˈlɑk.ju.təɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

The agent noun counterpart, via suffix -tor, of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”).

#### Noun

interlocutor (plural interlocutors)
* A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation.
    Synonyms: converser, conversant, conversationalist, partner, collocutor
    Coordinate terms: asker, answerer, correspondent, interviewer, interviewee, penpal
** 1894, Calvin Thomas, “The Teacher's Outfit in German”, in The School Review, volume 2, number 7, page 406:Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.
** 2025 January 14, Howard LaFranchi, “In Biden-Trump handoff, a foreign policy shift for a changed world?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.
* A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
** 1991, Maureen Costonis, “Martha Graham's American Document: A Minstrel Show in Modern Dance Dress”, in American Music, volume 9, number 3, page 299:The "interlocutor" greeted the audience and engaged in comical repartee with the "end men," named Tambo and Bones.
* (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.

##### Related terms

* elocution
* interlocution
* interlocutorily
* interlocutory
* interlocutress
* interlocutrice
* interlocutrix
* locution
* oblocutor

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From French interlocutoire, from Latin interlocūtōrium.

#### Noun

interlocutor (plural interlocutors)
* (Scots law) A decree of a court.
** 1869, “The Judicial System of Scotland”, in The American Law Register (1852-1891), volume 17, number 5, page 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
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [in.tər.lu.kuˈto]
* IPA: (Balearic) [in.tər.lo.kuˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.teɾ.lo.kuˈtoɾ]

### Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutors, feminine interlocutora)
* interlocutor (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation)

#### Related terms

* interlocució
* interlocutori

### 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, 2025
* “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.

## Galician
### Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutores, feminine interlocutora, feminine plural interlocutoras)
* interlocutor (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation)

#### Related terms

* interlocutorio

### Further reading

* “interlocutor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.lo.kuˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teɦ.lo.kuˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.lo.kuˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teɦ.lo.kuˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.teɾ.lo.kuˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.teʁ.lo.kuˈtoʁ/ [ĩ.teʁ.lo.kuˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.teɻ.lo.kuˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.lu.kuˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.lu.kuˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.tɨɾ.lu.kuˈto.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧lo‧cu‧tor

### Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutores, feminine interlocutora, feminine plural interlocutoras)
* interlocutor (a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation)

#### Related terms

* interlocução
* interlocutório

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French interlocuteur.

### Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutori)
* interlocutor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inteɾlokuˈtoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾ.lo.kuˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: in‧ter‧lo‧cu‧tor

### Noun

interlocutor m (plural interlocutores, feminine interlocutora, feminine plural interlocutoras)
* interlocutor
** 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, “The Other”, in The Book of Sand, page 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.
* negotiator
** 2009 June 10, “Gadafi levanta una tienda en Roma”, in BBC Mundo‎:Gadafi recibirá a sus interlocutores en una carpa de estilo beduino...Gaddafi will receive his negotiators with a Bedouin-style carpet...

#### Related terms

* interlocución
* interlocutorio

### Further reading

* “interlocutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10