It's the Word of the Day podcast for October 29th.
Today's word is omniscient, spelled O-M-N-I-S-C-I-E-N-T.
Omniscient is an adjective.
It describes someone or something with unlimited knowledge or understanding.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The New Yorker by Idris Caloon.
The Abrahamic faiths conceive of God as an omniscient creator,
and generally abjure gambling as a result.
One of the first laws passed by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards,
dice, or gaming tables.
One who is omniscient literally knows all.
The word omniscient traces back to two Latin roots, omni,
meaning all, or universally, and the noun schiantia, meaning knowledge.
You'll recognize omni as the prefix that tells all in such words as omnivorous, meaning eating all,
or in actual use eating both plants and animals, and omnipotent, meaning all powerful.
Schiantia comes from the Latin verb schire, meaning to know,
which likewise has a number of other knowledge-related descendants in English,
including the words conscience, science, and prescience, meaning for knowledge.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.