interlocutor
in-ter-LOK-yuh-ternounMeaning a person taking part in a conversation
Memory hook INTER-LOCU-TOR: the one you speak BETWEEN. Across the café table, Lin and Omar trade ideas, each listening and answering in turn. Each is the other’s interlocutor.
Grandpa is a patient interlocutor; he lets you finish every sentence.
In context The reporter was a skilled interlocutor: she listened closely, asked one short question at a time and let the long silences do the rest.
Similar conversation partner, speaker, questioner
From Latin interloqui, “to speak between, interrupt”: inter (between) + loqui (to speak).