If you picked C, you made our day. From the Latin words "dies," which means "day," and "diurnus," meaning "of a day" or "daily," came the French word "journal," which was borrowed into English with the same spelling. Originally it was also an adjective meaning "daily," but now it functions only as a noun. The use of "journal" to mean "a day-to-day record of events" appeared in the early 1600s. It was later used for a newspaper that was published daily. Still later, that meaning was broadened to include a special interest magazine that might only be published a few times a year.