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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-224/
- Published: 2020-09-06T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-04T19:40:40.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

collateral (adj) – 1\. Situated or running side by side; parallel.

1. Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.
2. Serving to support or corroborate.
3. Of a secondary nature; subordinate.
4. Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation.
5. Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.

(noun) – 1\. Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.

1. A collateral relative.

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

Etymology : Late 14th century, “accompanying, attendant” (especially as an auxiliary), also “descended from the same stock but in a different line” (distinguished from lineal), from Old French collateral (13th century.), from Medieval Latin collateralis “accompanying,” literally “side by side,” from assimilated form of Latin com “with, together” + lateralis “of the side,” from latus “the side, flank of humans or animals, lateral surface,” a word of uncertain origin.

Literal sense of “parallel, along the side of” attested in English from mid-15th century Related: Collaterally. Collateral damage is by 1873 in legal cases; in modern use, a euphemism for “the coincidental killing of civilians,” an extended sense from c. 1968, American English, at first generally with reference to nuclear weapons.

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