The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is…

prerogative (noun):

1a: an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as
(1): one belonging to an office or an official body
(2): one belonging to a person, group, or class of individuals
(3): one possessed by a nation as an attribute of sovereignty
b: the discretionary power inhering in the British Crown
2: a distinctive excellence

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : In ancient Rome, voting at legal assemblies was done by group, with the majority in a group determining the vote. The group chosen to vote first on an issue was called the praerogativa, a word rooted in Latin rogare, “to ask; to ask an assembly for a decision.” When English adopted prerogative from Latin, via Anglo-French, in the 15th century, it took only the idea of the privilege the ancient Roman voting group enjoyed; the English word referred then, as it also does now, to an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege. Often such a prerogative is tied to an office, official body, or nation.

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