Locute
Origin
. The first sense could also be directly derived from Latin locut-, perfect active participial stem of loquor ("talk, speak").
Full definition of locute
Verb
- (intransitive or transitive, rare) To speak; to say; to utter.
- 1709, John Oldmixon, The History of Addresses
- 1983, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Review: Current Problems in Sociobiology: An Adaptationist Review
- 2014, J. Robert Lennon, Five Stories
- (philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the utterance as object) To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act.
- 2011, David Braun, Implicating Questions
- 2020, , The Oxford Handbook of Assertion