palaver

Pronounced: puh-LAH-ver, noun

Notes: Do you know what our word has to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ?

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Yesterday’s word

The word antonomasia is

• the use of an epithet or title for a proper name (like using “the Bard” for Shakespeare)
• the use of the name of a person known for a particular quality to describe others (such as calling a good dancer a “Fred Astaire” or a smart person “an Einstein”

First usage

Our word came into English in the last 1500s

Background / Comments

I didn’t know our word, but I should have recognized parts of it. Our word came to us from Latin, but it came into Latin from the Greek word antonomazein (to name differently), composed of anti- (instead of) and onoma (name).