It's the Word of the Day podcast for September 13th.
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Today's word is consummate.
Spelled C-O-N-S-U-M-M-A-T-E.
Consummate is an adjective.
Someone or something described as consummate.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Vibe by Raquel Harris.
Kem's legacy serves as a blueprint for excellence.
Offstage, his charm extends beyond the microphone.
Friends and collaborators describe him as a consummate gentleman and leader with an infectious sense of humor.
Consummate is a consummate example of a word that's shifted in meaning over the centuries, a 15th century addition to the language, ultimately from the Latin word consumare, meaning to sum up or finish.
It first described something that has been brought to completion.
Shakespeare used the word this way in Measure for Measure, with these words 'Do you, the office friar which consummate, return him here again'.
By the early 16th century, consummate had taken on the meaning of complete in every detail.
Today, it usually describes someone or something extremely skilled and accomplished, but it can also describe that which is supremely excellent, as well as that which is simply extreme.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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