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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1467/
- Published: 2024-02-04T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-30T17:32:53.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

The word for today is…

authentic (adjective):

1: not false or imitation : real, actual  
2: true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character  
3a: worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact  
b: conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features  
c: made or done the same way as an original  
4a *of a church mode* : ranging upward from the keynote  
b *of a cadence* : progressing from the dominant chord to the tonic  
5 *obsolete* : authoritative

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

Etymology : Middle English autentik, auctentyke, borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French autentik, autentique, borrowed from Medieval Latin autenticus, authenticus, auctenticus “original, genuine (of a document), authoritative, approved by authority,” going back to Latin authenticus “original (of a document),” borrowed from Greek authentikós “warranted as genuine, original, authoritative,” probably from authentía “absolute sway, authority” (from authéntes “doer, master” + -ia -ia entry 1) + -ikos -ic entry ; authéntes, in earlier Greek “killer, murderer, perpetrator of a deed,” from aut- aut- + -hentes, from hen- (going back to Indo-European \*sen-, full-grade ablaut of zero-grade \*sn-ne-h, whence Greek ánymi, anýnai “to complete, achieve, perpetrate”) + -tes, agent suffix

Authentic was Merriam – Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023.

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