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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1186/
- Published: 2023-04-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-02-22T19:05:01.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

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](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prerogative%20Time:%206:15%20am?ref=goodoil.news)

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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