loquitur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.

Verb

loquitur

1. (stage direction) Speaks.
   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 54:

     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.

Related terms

• res ipsa loquitur

Further reading

• “loquitur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Verb

loquitur

1. third-person singular present indicative of loquor

Derived terms

• res ipsa loquitur