It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 19th.
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Today's word is indomitable, spelled I-N-D-O-M-I-T-A-B-L-E.
Indomitable is an adjective.
It's a formal word used to describe something that is impossible to defeat or discourage.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Chicago Tribune.
During his legendary NBA career, Michael Jordan was renowned not only for his athleticism and skill,
but also for his indomitable will to win.
At five punchy syllables, the word indomitable is imposing.
So it's inevitable that some are perplexed by this synonym for impregnable.
But it's not so tough once you break it into parts.
The prefix in, I-N, spelled I-M before B, M, and P, means not in an innumerable collection of English words.
The common suffix abel, A-B-L-E, means capable of, fit for, or worthy of.
Combine those two English affixes with the Latin verb domitare, meaning to tame, and voila, indomitable.
Indomitable was first used in English as a synonym of wild, describing appropriately enough things that cannot be tamed.