It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 24th.
Today's word is ebullient, spelled E-B-U-L-L-I-E-N-T.
Ebullient is an adjective.
If someone or something is appealingly lively and enthusiastic,
they may also be described as ebullient.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the San Diego Union Tribune by George Varga.
Les McCann, who would later serve as a drummer and horn player in his high school marching band,
soon developed a love for the great symphonies and for distinctive rhythm and blues vocal stylists,
such as Bull Moose Jackson, Billy Eckstein, and Louis Jordan.
But it was the abolient gospel music he heard at his local Baptist church that touched him the deepest.
That was the foundation, the basis for all my knowledge,"
says McCann, whose roviking piano work still bears a strong gospel tinge.
Someone who is ebullient is bubbling over with enthusiasm,
so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the word ebullient comes from the Latin verb ebulire,
which means to bubble out.
When ebullient was first used in the late 1500s, its meaning hewed closely to its Latin source.
Ebullient meant boiling or bubbling,
and described things like boiling water and boiling oil instead of someone's bubbly personality.
Only later did the words meaning broaden beyond describing the liveliness of a boiling liquid to encompass emotional liveliness and enthusiasm.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.