prolocutor

English

Etymology

From Latin pro (“before”) + locūtus (“having spoken”).

Noun

prolocutor (plural prolocutors)

1. A spokesman, one who speaks on behalf of others.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods,
     Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.

2. A chairman of the lower house of a convocation in the Anglican Church.