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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1557/
- Published: 2024-05-04T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-03T17:44:00.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

The word for today is…

connive (verb):

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

Etymology : Connive may not seem like a term that would raise many hackles, but it certainly raised those of Wilson Follett, a usage critic who lamented that the word “was undone during the Second World War, when restless spirits felt the need of a new synonym for plotting, bribing, spying, conspiring, engineering a coup, preparing a secret attack.” Follett thought connive should only mean “to wink at” or “to pretend ignorance.” Those senses are closer to the Latin ancestor of the word: connive comes from the Latin verb connivere, which means “to close the eyes” and which is descended from -nivere, a form akin to the Latin verb nictare, meaning “to wink.” But many English speakers disagreed, and the “conspire” sense is now the word’s most widely used meaning.

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