Materiel

Materiel is a noun that refers to military equipment.  Our word of the day is not to be confused with the word material, M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L, but both words are derived from the Latin word materia (mah TEAR ee uh) meaning ‘matter.’ Here’s an example of our word of the day in use: It never made sense to me that in the army we would spend hours hauling materiel from one site to another, only to haul it back a few hours later. It didn’t seem to me that our commanding officers put much time into thinking about how to deal with army equipment.