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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1111/
- Published: 2023-02-14T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-09T23:48:19.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

celerity (noun):

: rapidity of motion or action

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/celerity?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Celerity hasn’t acted with much expressive celerity since its entry into English in the 1400s: it refers now as it did centuries ago to swiftness of motion or action. Its source (by way of Middle French) is the Latin adjective celer (“swift” or “speedy”), a word from which we also get accelerate, and there is some evidence of a trace of equine celerity in its deeper history: celer may go back to an Indo-European word that is the ultimate source of a Greek word meaning “swift horse” or “charger.”

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