It's the Word of the Day podcast for February 6th.
Today's word is Sartorial, spelled S-A-R-T-O-R-I-A-L.
Sartorial is an adjective.
It broadly means of or relating to clothes,
but it often more specifically means of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Hello Magazine.
As always, the princess's sartorial elegance shone through this year,
with her championing British designers turning to old favorites and adorning treasures she's been gifted from the royal family over the years.
Study the seams in the word sartorial,
and you'll find the common adjective suffix i-a-l and sartor, a medieval Latin noun meaning tailor.
Sartor comes ultimately from the Latin word sarcure, meaning to mend.
Sartorial has bedecked the English language
since the early decades of the 19th century as a word describing things relating to clothes and to tailors.
While Sartor, though never fully adopted into the language,
has also seen occasional use as a synonym for tailor.
A third word shares the same root.
Sartorius.
with the plural sartorii, referring to the longest muscle in the human body.
Crossing the front of the thigh obliquely,
it assists in rotating the leg to the cross-legged position in which the knees are spread wide apart,