Why this word is great
CAMERLENGO — [Noun] The cardinal who administers the Roman Catholic Church in the interregnum between Popes. Derived from Italian camerlengo ("chamberlain"), itself from medieval Latin camarlingus ("chamberlain"), of Germanic origin, akin to Old High German chamarlinc ("chamberlain"). Unlike "chamberlain" (a secular steward of noble households) or "sede vacante" (the vacancy itself), the camerlengo is the keeper of keys, the temporal guardian of an eternal institution. He is the measured footsteps echoing through the Apostolic Palace, the wax seal pressed upon the late pontiff’s study, the solitary figure who—for a few hushed weeks—holds the weight of two millennia in his hands. A reminder that even the divine must pass through human hands.