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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-25/
- Published: 2024-08-18T18:15:46.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-18T18:15:45.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

The word for today is…

incognito (adjective or adverb, noun):

*adjective or adverb*  
: with one's identity concealed

*noun*  
1: one appearing or living incognito  
2: the state or assumed identity of one living or traveling incognito

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

Etymology : The ancient Romans knew that there are times when you don't want to be recognized. For example, a story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells how Jupiter and Mercury visited a village incognito and asked for lodging. The supposedly penniless travelers were turned away from every household except that of a poor elderly couple named Baucis and Philemon; the pair provided a room and a feast for the visitors despite their own poverty. The Romans had a word that described someone or something unknown, like the gods in the tale: incognitus, a term that is the ancestor of our modern incognito. Cognitus is a form of the Latin verb cognoscere, which means "to know" and which also gives us recognize and cognizance, among other words

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