Festinate

Festinate is a verb that means to hurry or hasten. It can also be used as an adjective that means hasty. Our word of the day comes from the Latin verb festinare (fest in ARE ay) which means ‘to speed up.’ Festinate hastily made a transition to English in the 16th century where it retained its basic meaning. We knew we’d have to festinate our sight-seeing if we were going to reach the airport on time. But sadly, we were delayed by too many distractions, so we were late — as usual.