purview

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 22, 2023 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>purview</strong> &#149; \PER-vyoo\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><em>Purview</em> refers to an area within which someone or something has authority, influence, or knowledge. It can also refer to a range of vision, understanding, or awareness.</p> <p>// I’ll do my best to answer your questions, but please note that my field is linguistics, and topics relating to economics are beyond my <em>purview</em>. </p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purview">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"The Springdale Public Library comes under the <em>purview</em> of the Washington County Library System." — Laurinda Joenks, <em>The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette</em>, 18 July 2023</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>It may not be illogical to assume a connection between <em>purview</em> and <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/view">view</a></em>, but is there one? Not exactly. Although the two words share a syllable, you’ll find that they have very different histories as viewed in the etymological rearview mirror. <em>Purview</em> comes from <em>purveu</em>, a word often found in the legal statutes of 13th- and 14th-century England. These statutes, written in Anglo-French, regularly open with the phrase <em>purveu est</em>, which translates literally to "it is provided." <em>Purveu</em> in turn comes from <em>porveu</em>, the past participle of the Old French verb <em>porveeir</em>, meaning "to provide." <em>View</em>, on the other hand, comes (via Middle English) from the past participle of another Anglo-French word, <em>veer</em>, meaning "to see," and ultimately from the Latin word <em>vidēre</em>, of the same meaning.</p> <br /><br /> </p> </font>