It's the Word of the Day podcast for February 21st.
Today's word is laconic, spelled L-A-C-O-N-I-C.
Laconic is an adjective.
It describes someone or something communicating with few words.
Laconic can more narrowly mean concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious.
Here's the word used in a sentence from lithub.com.
Elijah did not enjoy all my choices, but my son listened closely to every selection.
He remembered plot points better than I did and assessed historical figures concisely.
Mean, he said, of Voltaire.
Creepy, summed up Alexander Hamilton.
Most surprising, my laconic teenager shared my love of Austin.
those hours listening to pride and prejudice were some of the happiest of my parenting life.
We'll keep it brief.
Laconia was once an ancient province in southern Greece.
Its capital city was Sparta, and the Spartans were famous for their terceness of speech.
Laconic comes to us by way of the Latin word laconicus,
meaning Spartan, from the Greek word laconicus.
In current use, laconic means terse or concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious,
and thus recalls the Spartan's tight-lipped tessiturnity.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sakolowski.