It's the Word of the Day podcast for March 21st.
Today's word is permeate, spelled P-E-R-M-E-A-T-E.
Permeate is a verb.
To permeate is to pass or spread through something.
Here's the word used in a sentence from CNN by Chris Boyette.
The smell of sawdust permeates the air,
and the din of buzzing chainsaws echoes from crews working to clear debris.
Permiate was borrowed into English in the 17th century from the Latin word permeatus,
which comes from the prefix pair, meaning through, and the verb miare, meaning to go or to pass.
Miare hasn't exactly permeated English.
Aside from permeate itself,
its other English descendants include the relatively common permeable as well as the medical miatus,
meaning a natural body passage, and the downright rare,
irremiable, meaning offering no possibility of return.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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