prolocutrix

English

Etymology

From the Latin prōlocūtrix, from prōloquor.

Noun

prolocutrix (plural prolocutrices)

(obsolete) A female prolocutor; a spokeswoman.
- 1613–8, Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), page 141:
  Lady Countesse, hath the Lords made you a charter, and sent you (for that you are an eloquent speaker) to be their aduocate and prolocutrix?
- 1660, Howell, Parly Beasts, page 33:
  A furious clash fell betwixt them who should be the Prolocutrix.

Synonyms

(female prolocutor): prolocutress (rare), spokeswoman

Translations

female prolocutor — see spokeswoman

References

“†Prolocutrix” listed on page 1,449/3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray, 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

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