I thank the Good Doctor but I would like to set the record straight. Brazilian universities use the title professor emeritus as an official tribute to their faculty members who had outstanding academic careers. I am just a retired professor.

An offender against the law. It appeared a few times in discussions but apparently never as a Good Word.

I was surprised to see that this common word is of Arabic origin.

Narrative occurs several times in these pages but not as a Good Word of the day. On the other hand, it is often used to justify completely different interpretations of the same facts, besides several other meanings.

You can listen to the Ukrainian pronunciation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uk-%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2.ogg . Most Ukrainian towns have names in several languages. A nice example is the city of Lviv which throughout its history belonged to many different political entities: Lviv in Ukrain...

Gain, income, ... . Very simple etymology from Latin via French.

Incidentally, I am sure that somewhere I have come across ...ragged raiment...

For instance: https://rc-dewinter.pixels.com/featured ... inter.html

This word has a really fascinating history. It's interesting to notice that its Portuguese version is laranja. I wonder where this 'l' came from.

I have a question about this one; is an inamorato or inamorata by definition illicit? Don't they mean something along the lines of 'one who is loved'?

It seems to me that inamorato means in Italian one who is in love. I don't think there is anything illicit about it .

Hi David,

Bloke is an interesting one. And for the life of me, I cannot remember whether we used it in the UK. Certainly it is ubiquitous here in Australia.

My son spent a few months in Australia and learnt another word that seems to mean something similar to bloke: bogan. Does it?

Used in the UK and Ireland for cured ham. Related to French jambon and Spanish jamón, both meaning ham.

Just a minor correction: the Polish example should be spelled as dziać się (with a z).

According to Merriam-Webster:

Lave is a simple, monosyllabic word that magically makes the mundane act of washing poetic.

This commonly used word and its relatives did not appear yet as good words!

So English raw is related to crudo (Spanish, Italian) and cru (French, Portuguese) which also mean raw?