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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1156/
- Published: 2023-03-30T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-23T18:01:59.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

endemic (adjective, noun):

*adjective*  
1a: belonging or native to a particular people or country  
b: characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment  
2: restricted or peculiar to a locality or region

*noun*  
: an organism that is restricted or peculiar to a locality or region

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

Etymology :Endemic made its way into English via French and New Latin and likely has its ultimate origin in the Greek adjective éndemos, a word with multiple uses, among which is one describing a disease confined to one area. Éndemos was formed from en- ( “in”) and a form of the noun demos, meaning “district, country, people.” That word was also key to the formation of the earlier word on which éndemos was modeled: epidemia, meaning “disease affecting a large number of individuals.” English adopted epidemic (also via French) in the early 17th century, but endemic didn’t become, uh, endemic until a century and a half later. (The now too-familiar relation pandemic slipped into the language in the mid 17th.) In current use, endemic characterizes diseases that are generally found in a particular area—malaria, for example, is said to be endemic to tropical and subtropical regions—while epidemic indicates a sudden, severe outbreak within that region or group. Endemic is also used by biologists to characterize plant and animal species that are found only in a given area.

  
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