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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-109/
- Published: 2019-11-18T17:15:36.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-15T01:15:16.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

compromise (noun) – 1\. (a) A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions.  
(b) The result of such a settlement.  
2\. Something that combines qualities or elements of different things.  
3\. A weakening or reduction of one’s principles or standards.  
4\. Impairment, as by disease or injury.

(verb) – 1 (a) To expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.  
b. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower.  
2\. To impair, as by disease or injury.  
3\. To settle by mutual concessions.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/compromise?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Early 15th century, “a joint promise to abide by an arbiter’s decision,” from Old French compromis (13th century), from Late Latin compromissus, past participle of compromittere “to make a mutual promise” (to abide by the arbiter’s decision), from com “with, together” + promittere “to send forth; let go; foretell; assure beforehand, promise,” from pro “before” (from PIE root \*per-“forward,” hence “in front of, before”) + mittere “to release, let go; send, throw”.  
The sense of “a coming to terms, a settlement of differences by mutual concessions” (mid-15th century) is from extension to the settlement itself. The meaning “that which results from such an agreement” is from 1510s.