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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-397/
- Published: 2025-09-09T18:15:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-09T18:15:17.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

largesse (noun):

1: liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior, also : something so given  
2: generosity

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

Etymology : The English language has benefited from the largesse of Anglo-French, through which a generous number of words have passed; examples range from simple to account to desert. English speakers owe Anglo-French a huge thanks, in particular, for its adjective large. That word, meaning "generous, broad, or wide," is the source of both largesse and the familiar duo of large and enlarge. Most people understand enlarge to mean "to make larger," but a less common sense (used in Shakespeare's Henry V) is "to set free." Largesse also contains the notion of freedom, specifically with regard to a lack of financial constraints: it's not about having a "large" amount of money but rather being "free" with it. Incidentally, the English word large wasn't about size when it was first adopted in the 13th century. Back then it meant "lavish."

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