locutor

From Latin locūtor (“speaker, talker”).

locutor (plural locutors)

1. A speaker (one who talks).
   • 1984, Urban Pidgins and Creoles: Papers from the York Creole Conference:

     A position that solely insinuates a down-grading effect in the use of FT, engenders the impression of reducing the native locutor to a "sociolinguistic automaton" (Smith/Giles 1978: 10) that reflects a one-to-one relationship between ethnic bias and linguistic output.

   • 2006, Alan J. E. Wolf, Subjectivity in a Second Language: Conveying the Expression of Self, →ISBN, page 186:

     In conclusion, learners conveyed subjectivity by means of the diegetic present and the foregrounded imperfect but did so less frequently and in shorter stretches of text than native speakers in the expression of the native locutor's subjective involvement with his own discourse.

   • 2007, William M. Tepfenhart, Walling Cyre, Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 151:

     We think of locutors' interactions as exchanges of conversational objects (COs). A conversational object is a mental attitude (belief, goal, wish, etc.) along with a positioning which a narrator transfers to another locutor during a conversation [13]. The locutor positions herself relative to a mental attitude by performing actions like "proposing", "accepting", "rejecting"; this is called the locutor's positioning relative to that mental attitude.

• This term was very rare until the mid-1900s, and is still less than a thousandth as common as speaker.^[1]

Borrowed from Latin locūtōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [lu.kuˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [lo.kuˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [lo.kuˈtoɾ]

locutor m (plural locutors, feminine locutora, feminine plural locutores)

1. speaker (one who speaks)
2. presenter; host (on TV, radio)

• “locutor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “locutor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “locutor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “locutor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From loquor + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈkuː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈkuː.tor]

locūtor m (genitive locūtōris); third declension

1. speaker, talker

Third-declension noun.

From Latin locūtor.

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locutor m (plural locutors, feminine locutora, feminine plural locutoras)

1. speaker (one who speaks)
   • 2019 December 15, “Uèi es lo jorn de l’esperanto”, in Jornalet‎^[1]:

     Atal, dins totes los cantons de la planeta, los locutors de la lenga internacionala organizan d’eveniments restacats amb lor movement lingüistic e social.

     So on every corner of the planet, the speakers of the international language organize events linked to their linguistic and social movement.

From Latin locūtor.

• Hyphenation: lo‧cu‧tor

locutor m (plural locutores, feminine locutora, feminine plural locutoras)

1. announcer; commentator (one who makes announcements or comments on radio or TV)

• “locutor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “locutor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French locuteur.

locutor m (plural locutori)

1. speaker

Borrowed from Latin locūtor.

• IPA^(key): /lokuˈtoɾ/ [lo.kuˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: lo‧cu‧tor

locutor m (plural locutores, feminine locutora, feminine plural locutoras)

1. (media) announcer, newscaster, newsreader, commentator

   Synonym: comentarista

• “locutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025