The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is…

verdant (adjective) –

1a : green in tint or color
b : green with growing plants
2 : unripe in experience or judgment

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : English speakers have been using “verdant” as a ripe synonym of “green” since the late 16th century, and as a descriptive term for inexperienced or naive people since the 1820s. (By contrast, the more experienced “green” has colored our language since well before the 12th century, and was first applied to inexperienced people in the 1540s.) “Verdant” is derived from the Old French word for “green,” vert, which in turn is from Latin virere, meaning “to be green.” Today, “vert” is used in English as a word for green forest vegetation and the heraldic color green. Another descendant of “virere” is the adjective virescent, meaning “beginning to be green.”

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