locute

verb

1. To speak; to say; to utter.

   intransitive, rare, transitive

   And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well.

2. To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act.

   intransitive, transitive

   The translator locutes propositions, but illocutes nothing at all.

Where it comes from

Back-formation from locution. The first sense could also be directly derived from Latin locut-, perfect active participial stem of loquor (“talk, speak”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry locute (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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