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prolocutrix

prolocutrix is the female equivalent of prolocutor.

Meaning of prolocutor

Noun

prolocutor (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...
  2. A speaker; a presiding officer of an assembly
  3. A chairman of the lower house of a convocation in the Anglican Church.

Synonyms of prolocutrix

Forms of prolocutrix

pluralprolocutrices

Origin of prolocutrix

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin prōlocūtrīx. By surface analysis, prolocutor + -trix. First attested in 1612.

Questions about prolocutrix

What is prolocutrix the female equivalent of?
Prolocutrix is the female equivalent of prolocutor.

Words near prolocutrix in the dictionary

  1. prolocutorship
  2. prolocutorships
  3. prolocutress
  4. prolocutresses
  5. prolocutrices
  6. prolocutrix
  7. prolog
  8. prologed
  9. prologetic
  10. prologing
  11. prologise

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