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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-47/
- Published: 2019-09-16T18:15:32.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-09T19:02:46.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

passim (adverb) – Throughout or frequently; here and there. Used in textual annotation to indicate that something, such as a word or passage, occurs frequently in the work cited.

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

Etymology : Passim is from the Latin word passus (“scattered”), itself from pandere, meaning “to spread.” Pandere is the root of the common word expand and the not-so-common word repand, meaning “having a slightly undulating margin” (as in “a repand leaf” or “a repand colony of bacteria”). It is also the progenitor of pace, as in “keep up a steady pace.” Passim itself appears in English both on its own and as part of the adverb sic passim, which means “so throughout.” Sic passim is typically used to indicate that a word or idea is to be found at various places throughout a book or a writer’s work.