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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-418/
- Published: 2021-03-19T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-15T20:09:56.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The word for today is…

durable (adjective) – able to exist for a long time without significant deterioration in quality or value

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

Etymology : Something “durable” lasts a long time, so it’s no surprise that the word comes to us, via Anglo-French, from the Latin verb durare, meaning “to last.” Other descendants of “durare” in English include “during,” “endure,” and “durance” (which now mostly turns up in the phrase “in durance vile,” a fancy way of saying “in prison”). “Durable” even has a near synonym in the much rarer “perdurable,” which combines “durare” with the prefix per- (meaning “throughout”) to create a word that can mean “lasting a very long time or indefinitely” or “eternal.”

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