It's the word of the day for May 14th.
Today's word is imbroglio, spelled I-M-B-R-O-G-L-I-O.
Imbroglio is a noun.
It's a formal word that refers to a complex dispute or argument.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Denver Post.
A tangled web of interpersonal feuds played out in letters to the local newspaper,
in social media posts and via legal filings in county court,
has left the town with no clear path out of a situation that 's not covered by state law.
The imbroglio has even reached the state capitol.
Ever noticed how an imbroglio embroils people in controversy?
There's a reason for that, an etymological one anyway.
Both the noun imbroglio, referring to, among other things, a scandal or bitter argument, and the verb embroil,
meaning to involve in conflicts or difficulties, come from the Middle French word embrouiller,
a combination of the prefix en, ien, and brouiller, meaning to jumble, though they took slightly different paths.
Embroils was direct, passing from Middle French through French and into English around the turn of the 16th century.
Italians altered embrouillé to form imbrogliare,
meaning to entangle, which spawned the noun imbroglio that English speakers embraced in the mid-18th century.
The English word imbroglio first referred to a confused mass and later expanded to cover confusing social situations such
as complicated disputes, misunderstandings, and scandals.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.