interlocutor

Meaning

1. A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
2. A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
3. An interlocutory judgement or sentence.

Synonyms

speaker

🔈

collocutor

converser

middleman

conversationalist

interlocutress

conversational partner

dialogist

debater

talker

one who speaks with another

colloquist

discourser

con panion in conversation

Translations

interlocuteur

interlocutore

🔈

Gesprächspartner

gesprekspartner

interlocutor

interlocutrice

محاور

🔈

interlocutor

συνομιλητής

mükâleme

interlocutor

Ansprechpartner

interlocutrice

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɪntəˈlɒkjʊtə/

Etymology

The agent noun counterpart, via suffix -tor, of Latin interloquor (“speak between, issue an interlocutory decree”), from inter- + loquor (“speak”); borrowed from Medieval Latin interlocūtor.