It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for July 14th.

Today's word is code is codary, spelled C-O-T-E-R-I-E-E-E-C-E-O-E-T-E-T-E-E-T-E-E-T-E-T-E-E, codary is a noun. It refers to an intimate and often exclusive group of people with a unifying common interest or purpose. Here's the word used in a

sentence from the Atlantic. By day I was exposed to third-wave feminist texts, lots of

talk about claiming my power and rejecting gender roles.

But on evenings and weekends, the small coterie of Latino students enrolled in my predominantly white college would gather and dance. The chasm between the bodily

autonomy I was being empowered to have intellectually and the physical

pliability to a partner's will that salsa required was simply too wide for my teenage

brain to bridge. A coterie today is in essence a click that is a tight-knit

group sharing interests in common.

Historically, however, Coterie's hung around agricultural fields, not garden parties.

In medieval France, Coterie referred to a group of feudal peasants who together

held a parcel of land. That coterie comes from the old French word for a singular peasant,

Kotier. Such associations of country people

inspired later French speakers to use coterie more broadly and apply it to other

kinds of clubs and societies.

By the time the word began appearing in English texts in the early 1700s,

its meaning had been extended to refer to any circle of people

who spent a great deal of time together, who shared the same basic attitudes, and who held a passion for some particular topic.

Codary mostly appears now in formal speech and writing and tends also to imply a bit of exclusivity.

If you're thinking of joining your local codery, you may need to learn the secret handshake or perhaps bone up on the latest

techniques for harvesting barley. With your word of the day I'm Peter

Kolomsky. Visit Merion Webster.

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