It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 20th.
Today's word is amiable, spelled A-M-I-A-B-L-E.
Amiable is an adjective.
Someone or something described as amiable is friendly and agreeable.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Vulture by Bilge Iberi.
An amiable, Honda, Civic driving, bird watching,
every man in shorts and glasses, Gary somehow turns out to be the perfect fake assassin.
Amiable has its roots in Amicus, the Latin word for friend,
and can ultimately be traced back to the verb amare, meaning to love.
English has been friendly with amiable since the 14th century,
at which time it meant pleasing or admirable, a sense that is now obsolete.
The current familiar senses of generally agreeable and friendly and sociable came centuries later.
Amare has also given English speakers such words as amative and amorous,
both meaning strongly moved by love,
Amore meaning a usually illicit love affair, and even amateur, which originally meant admirer.
And that's just the tip of the amare iceberg.
Its influence on romance languages is nothing short of integral.
The Spanish word for friendship is amistad.
The French word for friend is ami.
And the Italian word for love, that's amore.