Today's Word "germane"
Published in Vocabulary
germane \juhr-MAYN\ (adjective) - Appropriate or fitting; relevant.
"...Chloe was abroad until you - you assumed the authority to have her recalled. There is no way she can provide any information germane to your inquiry." -- Clare Curzon, "Body of a Woman"
Germane comes from Middle English germain, literally, "having the same parents," ultimately deriving from Latin germanus, from germen, "a bud, a shoot."
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