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Word Of The Day: Noel ( noun noh-EL ) Did You Know? English speakers borrowed the word noel from French. It can be traced further back to the Latin word natalis, which can mean "birthday" as a noun or "of or relating to birth" as an adjective. (The English adjective natal has the same meaning and is also an offspring of natalis.) Noels were being sung in Latin or French for centuries before English-speakers started using the word to refer to Christmas carols in the 18th century. An early use of noel (spelled nowell) to mean "Christmas" can be found in the text of the late 14th-century Arthurian legend Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. #vocabulary #vocabularybuilding #wordoftheday #learnnewwords #DidYouKnow https://www.instagram.com/p/CJQoD-ElM_H/?igshid=jgutgzuv05uw

Build your vocabulary - Contraband Contraband first appeared in English in the early 1500s as a borrowing of Italian contrabbando. This Italian word can be traced to the Medieval Latin word contrabannum, a combination of contra- ("against") and bannum ("decree"). Bannum is Germanic in origin and is related to Old High German bannan ("to command"). #vocabulary #vocabularybuilding #wordoftheday #learnnewwords #DidYouKnow https://www.instagram.com/p/CJDJbKvlecm/?igshid=1habxbwuq1w0x

Word Of The Day: Incandescent ( adjective | in-kun-DESS-unt ) Did You Know? Incandescent first lit up the English language toward the end of the 18th century, at a time when scientific experiments involving heat and light were being conducted on an increasingly frequent basis. An object that glowed at a high temperature (such as a piece of coal) was incandescent. #vocabulary #vocabularybuilding #wordoftheday #learnnewwords #DidYouKnow https://www.instagram.com/p/CIm6VeAFhiS/?igshid=1qtorzdod9wd3