Entertaiment is a dynamic and ever-evolving concept that can be adapted to any scale—from an individual selecting entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to banquets adapted for two; to parties and events for thousands; and to performances intended for global audiences. The experience of being entertained has become strongly associated with leisure, so that one not unusual information of the idea is fun and laughter, although many entertainments may have a serious purpose, as in the various styles of ceremony, celebration, non secular festival, or satire. The word comes from the Medieval Latin intertenere, or hold inside, with the suffix -entertain indicating an action of holding something in place for transformation.