Word of the Day
envoyé
Envoy
French
French/ɑ̃.vwa/English/ˈɛn.vɔɪ/
“To send someone in your place is to trust them with your voice — and sometimes with your life.”
The word arrives from Old French envoyer, meaning "to send," which in turn descends from Latin in via — literally "on the road." An envoy is, at root, a person dispatched: a body set in motion toward a destination. The architecture of the word is travel itself, embedded in its syllables. Long before it named a diplomat, it named any messenger, any courier threading between courts and kingdoms.
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