It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 12th.
Today's word is surfeit, spelled S-U-R-F-E-I-T.
Surfeit is a noun.
It's a formal word that refers to an amount or supply that is too much or more than you need.
It is synonymous with the word excess.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the LA Times.
Pet owners can have a tougher time finding apartments because of the surfeit of landlords who don't allow dogs,
cats, or other animals in their buildings.
There is an abundance, you could almost say a surfeit,
of English words that come from the Latin verb fecare, meaning to do.
The connection to facare is fairly obvious for words spelled with F-I-C,
F-A-C, or F-E-C, such as sacrifice, fact, and in fact.
For words like stupify, a modification of the Latin word stupe facare, and hacienda,
originally in Old Spanish and Latin, facienda, the facare relation is not so apparent.
As for surfait, a sea was dropped along the path that led from Latin through Anglo-French,
where facaré became fer, meaning to do, and sur was added to make surfer, meaning to overdo.
It's the Anglo-French noun surfait, surfait, meaning excess, however, that Middle English borrowed,
eventually settling on the spelling in English, S-U-R-F-E-I-T.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.