It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 10th.
Today's word is durable, spelled D-U-R-A-B-L-E.
Durable is an adjective.
It describes people or things that last or remain strong and in good condition over a long period of time.
It's often used figuratively as in a durable athlete.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Black Chronicle.
California proposed banning single-use cups at chain restaurants for dining customers,
building upon its plastic straw ban,
mandated phase-out of virgin plastic use, and proposal to ban plastic retail bags.
under SB 1167,
chain restaurants instead would be required to provide dine-in customers with reusable drinking vessels that are a durable cup,
mug,
or glass containing hot or cold liquids that is cleaned and reused by the food service facility.
Something durable lasts a long time,
so it's apt that the word durable comes to us via Anglo-French from the Latin verb durare,
meaning to last.
Other descendants of durare in English include durring, endure, and duration,
all of which concern things lasting in one way or another.
Durable even has a near synonym in the much more rare per-durable,
which combines durare with the prefix pair,