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# The BFD Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-19/
- Published: 2020-02-18T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-11T20:16:58.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

fulgent (adj) – Shining brilliantly; radiant.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/fulgent?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “The weary Sun betook himself to rest; — / Then issued Vesper from the fulgent west.” That’s how the appearance of the evening star in the glowing western sky at sunset looked to 19th-century poet William Wordsworth. Fulgent was a particularly apt choice to describe the radiant light of the sky at sunset. The word derives from the Latin verb fulg?re, meaning “to shine,” a root which is itself akin to the Latin flagrare, meaning “to burn.” English speakers have been using fulgent to depict resplendence since at least the 15th century.

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