It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for January 29th.

Today's word is Emote.

Today's word is Emote, spelled E-M-. Emote is a verb. To emote is to

emote is to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way. Here's the word used in a sentence from Wired by Virginia

Heffernan. An entity that feigns human emotions is arguably a worse object of affection than a cold

computational device that doesn't emote at all.

Emote is an example of what linguists call a back formation, that is a word formed by trimming

down an existing word.

In this case, the parent word is emotion,

which came to English by way of middle French

from the Latin verb immovere, meaning to remove or displace, making the removal of the suffix ION to form

emote quite fitting.

As is sometimes the case with back formations, Emote has since its coinage in the early 20th century

tended toward use that is less than entirely serious.

It frequently appears in humorous or deprecating descriptions of the work of actors,

and is similarly used to describe theatrical behavior by non-actors.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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