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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1500/
- Published: 2024-03-08T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-12T07:45:32.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

he word for today is…

posse (noun):

1: a large group often with a common interest  
2: a body of persons summoned by a sheriff to assist in preserving the public peace usually in an emergency  
3: a group of people temporarily organized to make a search (as for a lost child)

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

Etymology : Posse started out in English as part of a term from common law, posse comitatus, which in Medieval Latin translates as “power or authority of the county.” Posse comitatus referred to a group of citizens summoned by a reeve (a medieval official) or sheriff to preserve the public peace as allowed for by law. “Preserving the public peace” so often meant hunting down a supposed criminal that posse eventually came to refer to any group organized to make a search or embark on a mission, and today one may read about posses organized for search and rescue efforts. In even broader use it can refer to any group, period. Sometimes nowadays that group is a gang or a rock band but it can as easily be any group—of politicians, models, architects, tourists, children, or what have you—acting together for some shared purpose.

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