Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
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Today's spotlight is on the word illustrious, from the Latin adjective illustris, meaning shining brightly with light.
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Illustris itself was probably a back formation of the Latin verb illustrare, a word with varied meanings, among them to light up, to make clear, and to embellish.
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Our word illustrate also comes from illustrare, of course, its original meaning was to enlighten intellectually, culturally, or spiritually.
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At one time, illustrious could be used synonymously with its immediate Latin forebear to describe things that glow brightly.
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But that meaning is now considered archaic.
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The word today is almost exclusively used to describe something such as a career or an achievement that stands out figuratively, shining brilliantly in the mind's eye.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the Word of the Day for August 29th.
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Today's word is kith, spelled K-I-T-H.
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Kith is a noun.
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It's an old-fashioned term that refers to familiar friends, neighbors, or relatives.
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It's often used in the phrase kith and kin, which means friends and relatives.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Buffalo News.
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One thing that you could usually count on was the loyalty of your kith and kin, your friends and family.
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But now it seems that the closeness of family and relatives is more difficult to maintain in the modern world.
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If you'd used the word kith a thousand years ago, you might have been referring to knowledge or to a homeland or to your neighbors and acquaintances.
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While those first two meanings of kith have long since fallen out of
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the word endures with a meaning very close to that neighbors and acquaintances one.
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Today, kith appears almost exclusively in the phrase kith and kin, meaning friends and relatives.
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