It's the Word of the Day podcast for January 4th.
Today's word is Titanic, spelled T-I-T-A-N-I-C.
Titanic is an adjective.
Something described as Titanic is very great in size, force or power.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the story of CO2 is the story of everything,
how carbon dioxide made our world by Peter Brannon.
Absurdly though, if you were standing on a Rodinian beach on the ancient supercontinent of Rodinia,
you might not have even noticed the seas rising at all.
This is
because as the land bounced back from underneath the weight of the now vanished ice sheets and the gravitational pull of these Titanic ice sheets on the oceans disappeared,
the seas might have appeared to some Rodinian beachgoers to instead retreat from the coast and even drop by over 300 feet,
despite the unthinkable rise in sea level globally.
Before becoming the name of the most famous ship in history,
the word Titanic described that which resembled or was related to the Titans,
the family of giant gods and goddesses in Greek mythology who were believed to have once ruled the earth.
They were subsequently overpowered and replaced by the younger Olympian gods under the leadership of Zeus.
The size and power of the Titans is memorialized in the adjective Titanic and in the noun Titanium,
a chemical element of exceptional strength that is used especially in the production of steel.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.