interviewer

The word 'interviewer' is built upon the foundation of 'interview', which entered English in the early 16th century from the Middle French entrevue, itself a compound of the prefix entre- (mutual, between) and vue (sight, view). This French term was a calque of the Latin intervidēre, meaning "to see each other". The original sense was of a formal meeting where parties "see between" or "see each other" to confer. The agent suffix '-er', of Germanic origin, was later appended to create 'interviewer', specifying the person who conducts or leads this reciprocal seeing. Thus, the modern professional role of the interviewer logically extends from this core idea of being the active agent in a mutual exchange of views.

Structure: inter (between, among) + view (see) + er (agent suffix) - inter: Latin origin, meaning "between, among". A prefix indicating reciprocal action or location. - view: From Anglo-French/Old French veue, voir (to see), ultimately from Latin vidēre (to see). The core morpheme meaning "sight" or "act of seeing". - er: Old English agent suffix, used to form nouns denoting a person who performs an action.