commensurate

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The Word of the Day for September 25 is: 

commensurate   \kuh-MEN-suh-rut\   adjective
          1 : equal in measure or extent : coextensive 
   *2 : corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate 

Example sentence:
     “Salary commensurate with experience,” the job advertisement read.

Did you know?
          "Commensurate" is a word that really measures up. And no wonder -- 
it's a descendant of the Latin noun "mensura," meaning "measure," from 
"mensus," past participle of "metiri" ("to measure"). In the first recorded use 
of “commensurate,” which comes from 1641, the adjective was used as a synonym 
of “coextensive.” It didn’t take long for “commensurate” to be used to mean 
“proportionate” as well. Henry James used this sense in _The American_ when he 
wrote, “The stakes were high and the risk was great; the prize therefore must 
have been commensurate.”





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