Picture a room that is empty, and one person with a list of names who has to fill it. They pick the day, they send the notice, they find the room, and at ten o'clock everyone walks in. That single job, getting scattered people into one place at one time, is what the name is built on. It is not a rank; nobody has to obey a convener. They are simply the person without whom the meeting would not happen.

convener 可以想成一個空著的房間,還有一個手上拿著名單、負責把它填滿的人。他挑日子、發通知、找場地,到了十點,大家一個一個走進來。整個字就架在這一件事上:把分散在各處的人,弄到同一個時間、同一個地方。它不是一個位階,沒有人要聽召集人的話。他只是那個「少了他,這場會就開不成」的人。

From the word’s history

The source gives the word as convene plus -er: convene is to call people together, and -er names the person who does it, an ending the source traces back through Middle English to Old English -ere.

來源直接說 convener 是 convene 加 -er 組成的。convene 是「把人召集到一起」,-er 是「做這件事的人」,這個字尾可以一路追到古英語的 -ere。所以這個字的意思幾乎就寫在組成裡,不必另外記。

Wiktionary, "convener"

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