reminisce

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 27, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>reminisce</strong> &#149; \rem-uh-NISS\&nbsp; &#149; <em>verb</em><br /> <p><strong>:</strong> to indulge in the process or practice of thinking or telling about past experiences</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>After the official reunion dinner, the old friends gathered at a pub to <em>reminisce</em> about their high school days, now long past.</p> <p>"After seeing Giants 2020 first-round draft choice Patrick Bailey arrive for his first major league spring training, fellow catcher Buster Posey said he began <em>reminiscing</em> about his own debut camp in Scottsdale." — <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/17/buster-posey-returns-to-giants-for-potential-last-camp-with-club-it-goes-through-my-mind/">Kerry Crowley, <em>The Mercury News</em> (San Jose, California), 18 Feb. 2021</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Reminisce</em> and its relative <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reminiscence">reminiscence</a></em> come from the mind—that is to say, they come from the Latin word for "mind," which is <em>mens</em>. A root related to <em>mens</em> teamed up with the prefix <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/re-#h4"><em>re-</em></a> to create the Latin verb <em>reminisci</em> ("to remember"), an ancestor of both words. <em>Reminisce</em> is one of several English verbs starting with <em>re-</em> that mean "to bring an image or idea from the past into the mind." Others in this group include <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remember">remember</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recall">recall</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remind">remind</a></em>, and <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recollect">recolle