n. Speech between two or more persons; conversation. [Latin interlocūtiō, interlocūtiōn-, from interlocūtus, past participle of interloquī, to interrupt : inter-, inter- + loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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