It's Marion Webster's Word of the Day for January 25th.

Today's word is resplendent, spelled R-E-S-P-L-E-N-D-E-N-T. Resplendent is an adjective. It's a literary word used to describe someone

or something as very bright and attractive. Here's the word used. In a sentence from the

uproar, a novel, by Karim D'emichke. Her box braids were tied in a top bun that poked out of her green and gold headscarf.

Pretty as the braids were, he quietly missed the natural hair they protected.

When unbound, her hair was a resplendent halo of vitality,

but he knew the halo required a complex, labor-intensive morning and night routine for which she had lost patience.

The word resplendent shares a root with the word splendid, meaning among other things, shining or brilliant,

and splendid, meaning shining or glossy, and splendor, meaning brightness or luster.

Each of these glowing terms gets its shine from the Latin verb Splendere, meaning to shine.

In the case of resplendent, the prefix R.E., added to splendere, formed the Latin resplendere,

meaning to shine back. Splendent, splendor the Latin resplendere, meaning to shine back.

Splendent, Splendent, and Resplendent were first used in English during the 15th century,

but Splendid didn't light up our language until almost 200 years later.

Its earliest no news dates from the early 1600s. With your word of the day,

I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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