It's the Word of the Day podcast for October 4th.
Today's word is repertoire, spelled R-E-P-E-R-T-O-I-R-E.
Repertoire is a noun.
It typically refers to a list or supply of plays, songs,
or dances that a company or person is prepared to perform.
Repertoire may also refer to a supply of skills or devices or, more broadly, to an amount or supply.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Mercury News of San Jose.
Rebecca Raudman is best known as the frontwoman for Dirty Cello,
a hard-working band that has honed a rollicking repertoire of rock anthems,
bluegrass standards, and Americana originals.
The late Latin noun repertorium, meaning list,
has given English two words related to the broad range of things that someone or something can do.
One is repertory,
perhaps most commonly known as a word for a company that presents several different plays,
operas, or other works at one theater, as well as the theater where such works are performed.
Repertoire, which comes from Repertorium via French, once meant the same thing as Repertory,
but later came to refer to the works a company performs, or an extended use,
to a range of skills that a person has, such as the different pitches a baseball player can throw,
or the particular dishes that are a chef's specialty.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.