It's Merriam Webster's word of the day for April 28th.

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Today's word is evanescent, spelled E-V-A-N-E-S-C-E-S-C-E-N-T.

Evanescent is an adjective.

It's a formal and literary word that describes something that only lasts a very short

time. Here's the word used in a sentence from Kirkus Reviews. Franklin once sternly confiscated a customer's

espresso and refunded his money because he took too long sipping it and thus allowed the evanescent flavors to dissipate.

The word evanescent didn't appear in the English language out of thin air. It comes from a form of

the Latin verb evanescere, which means to fade away or to disappear. Evanescure is also the ultimate

source of our word vanish.

Given the similarity in spelling and meaning between the two words,

you might expect evaporate to trace back to Evanescaray as well,

but its source is another steamy Latin root, Evaporare.

While today evanescent is used to describe things that last only a short time,

the word could formally also describe the incalculably small.

That use is now archaic, meaning it has almost blown away on the breeze.

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