Eloquent, fluent, and skilled in speaking or discourse; articulate.
From Latin 'disertus,' meaning eloquent or skillful in speaking, derived from the root 'disserere' (to discuss or discourse). The word was common in Middle English but is now archaic.
Shakespeare and medieval writers loved this word, but it's nearly extinct today—replaced by modern words like 'eloquent.' Yet it survives in the phrase 'dissertation,' which originally meant 'a disert discussion.' Language archaeologists find it in old poems!
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