The Word of the Day podcast for April 5th.
Today's word is verdant, spelled V-E-R-D-A-N-T.
Verdant is an adjective.
It describes something that is green in tint or color, or green because it's covered with growing plants.
Verdant can also describe a person who is inexperienced or has not yet developed good judgment.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Front Street,
Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia by Brian Barth.
On the other side, the lusher Santa Cruz Mountains, a place of dank redwood forests, organic farming communes,
Some lesser-known words for shades of green in English include praisine,
and uppity vineyards, form a verdant curtain between the valley and the ocean.
English speakers have been using the word verdant as a ripe synonym of green since at least the 16th century
meaning having the green color of a leek, smaradin,
and as a descriptive term for inexperienced or naive people since the 19th century.
meaning yellowish-green in color like an emerald, and another viridis descendant, viridescent, meaning slightly green.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
By contrast, the more experienced word green has colored our language since well before the 12th century and was first
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applied to inexperienced people in the 16th century.
Verdant traces back to the old French word for green, ver, which itself is from the Latin word viridis.