It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 2nd.

Today's word is effusive, spelled EFF-F-F-F-U-S-I-V-E.

Effusive is an adjective.

Someone or something described as effusive is expressing or showing a lot of

emotion or enthusiasm. Here's the word used in a sentence from the Hollywood Reporter. More recently,

Billboard ranked Grande, who also writes and produces her own work high on its list of the

greatest pop stars of the 21st century. Rolling Stone has

been similarly effusive, praising a whistle tone that rivals Maria Carey's in her prime.

English speakers have used the word effusive to describe excessive outpourings since the 17th century.

Its oldest and still most common sense

relates to the expression of abundant emotion or enthusiasm. But in the 1800s, geologists adopted

a specific sense, characterizing flowing lava or hardened rock formed from flowing lava. effusive can be traced via the medieval Latin adjective effusivus, meaning generating profusely

or lavish, to the Latin verb effundere, meaning to pour out, which itself comes from fundere,

meaning to pour, plus a modification of the prefix X, meaning out. Our verb effuse, EFFUSE, has the same

Latin ancestors. A person effuses when speaking effusively. Liquids can effuse as well as in water

effusing from a pipe. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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