Why this word is great
CONSOLATIO — [Noun] A ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals. From Latin consolatio ("consolation, comfort"), from consolari ("to console, encourage"), from con- ("with") + solari ("to comfort"). Unlike "condolence" (which scatters sympathy like petals) or "solace" (which is a private balm), consolatio is a scaffold of words built to hold up the collapsing. It is the measured cadence of a eulogy in a dim-lit chapel, the deliberate invocation of memory against the void, the way a single voice, trained and tender, can briefly stitch the ragged edges of grief—a ritual as old as loss itself, pretending order can be wrested from the void.