It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 30th.

Today's word is interlocutor, spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-C-U-T-O-R.

Interlocutor is a noun. It's a formal word that means one who takes part in dialogue or

conversation. Here's the word used in a sentence from lit-hub.com. I remember sitting alone on the train platform,

and then on the train with no interlocutor but the poem. I read it once, I read it again, and in the blank spaces between the verses I started to translate.

It may not necessarily be grandiloquence to use the word interlocutor in casual speech,

but if your interlocutors, that is, the people with whom you are speaking, are using it, your conversation is likely a formal one.

Interlocutor is one of many English words that comes from the Latin verb loquai, meaning to speak, including loquacious, meaning talkative, eloquent, meaning capable of fluent or vivid speech, and grandiloquence,

meaning extravagant or pompous speech. In interlocutor, loquois was joined to inter,

forming a Latin word meaning to speak between or to issue an interlocutory decree. An interlocutory

decree is a judicial decision that isn't final or that

deals with a point other than the principal subject matter of the dispute. With your word of the day,

I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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