It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 12th.
Today's word is verbatim, spelled V-E-R-B-A-T-I-M.
Verbatim is an adverb.
It means in the exact words, or in other words, word for word.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Vogue.
The case is drawn from astonishing real-life events,
and much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from court transcripts.
As every bona fide word nerd knows, English is rich with Latin descendants.
While most have undergone changes in spelling, some are the same.
In other words, they're spelled verbatim.
We won't list examples of such ad nauseam,
but a few include words like caveat, ego, vice versa, and of course verbatim.
This last word comes to us via the medieval Latin word, which also means word for word.
As you may have noticed, there's a verb in verbatim, and that's no mere coincidence.
Both verb and verbatim come from verbom, the Latin word for word.
The influence of verbom can be seen in other common English words,
such as proverb, verbose, adverb, etc. And speaking of adverbs,
verbatim isn't just an adverb,
it's also used as an adjective to mean being in or following the exact words,
as in a verbatim report.