I am not even sure that this is a proper word.

I recently read an article saying that streamin services are getting crummier by the day.

I wonder if it is related to aver.

Among all those language references you missed the Portuguese garganta (throat) which seems to be the closest to the GW.

When I read the Quodlibet item, I wondered if it was related to ad-lib. Anyway, it looks like a good suggestion.

Thanks. In my native Portuguese, século means century, so the word secular (written as in English) points more clearly to the temporal meaning.

Is this word related to ad lib?

I was going to suggest electricity, but found electrolyte among the Good Words, and the origin is the same. This suggestion piggybacks on those two, as most people would react with a "WTF is amber, anyway?".

I was asked about this word, and I was sure there would be a WOTD entry to support my explanations. There wasn't, how come, I never seem to find one...

Never mind, I was only kvetching for fun, not really complaining.

The religious meaning, and the temporal count meaning are probably related, but it beats me how.

As I watched a series starring an actress with that name, I remembered seeing the word as a common noun. My guess is that the latter use came later.

When my Kindle popped up the message "Battery level is low" today, I thought it was celebrating the absence of sexual violence in the neighbourhood.

There is a more disciplined form of zigzag that goes by the name boustrophedonic. Boustrophredon has already been a Good Word, but the item does not connect to zigzag.

Is it a funny coincidence that this verb/noun is also a name/surname of biblical origin? I cannot find a metaphorical connection.

Like lanyard and lasso, it begins with "la", and there is some sort of chord involved. Probably this is just a coincidence.