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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-393/
- Published: 2025-09-05T18:15:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T18:15:14.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

colloquial (adjective):

1a: used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation  
also : unacceptably informal  
b: using conversational style  
2: of or relating to conversation : conversational

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

Etymology : The noun colloquy was first used in English to refer to a conversation or dialogue, and when the adjective colloquial was formed from colloquy it had a similar focus. Over time, however, colloquial developed a more specific meaning related to language that is most suited to informal conversation—and it ultimately garnered an additional, disparaging implication of a style that seems too informal for a situation. Colloquy and colloquial trace back to the Latin verb colloqui, meaning "to converse." Colloqui in turn was formed by combining the prefix com- ("with") and loqui ("to speak"). Other conversational descendants of loqui in English include circumlocution, eloquent, loquacious, soliloquy, and ventriloquism.

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