quotidian

[kwoh-tid-ee-uh n]

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adjective

daily: a quotidian report.

usual or customary; everyday: quotidian needs.

ordinary; commonplace: paintings of no more than quotidian artistry.

(of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur daily.

noun

something recurring daily.

a quotidian fever or ague.

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Origin of quotidian

1300–50; < Latin quotīdiānus, cottīdiānus daily, equivalent to cottīdi(ē) every day (adv.) (*quot(t)ī a locative form akin to quot however many occur, every + diē, ablative of diēs day; cf. meridian) + -ānus -an; replacing Middle English cotidien < Old French < Latin, as above

Related formsquo·tid·i·an·ly, adverbquo·tid·i·an·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for quotidian

To read their letters is a similar exercise, even when the correspondence regards only quotidian matters.
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Videos uploaded by some mothers and fathers are less of a reach out than a simple continuation of their quotidian Internet habits.
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We Think Alone feels at first somehow too quotidian and mundane, wholly un-artlike.
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The other extreme is “rooted in very quiet, quotidian, perhaps more conventionally Japanese forms of narrative.”
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Creator Matthew Weiner wants to ensure that even the most quotidian of details about the plot remain concealed.
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They live, as a rule, in mediocre circumstances; they are harried by the necessities of quotidian existence.
Egoists|James Huneker
For our quotidian difficulties his example promises no solution.
Prophets of Dissent|Otto Heller
It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day.
The Secret of the Island|W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)
Sometimes the fever simulated a quotidian, sometimes a tertian.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)|Charles Creighton
Secundo, It is a thing of monthly anxiety and quotidian bustle.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British Dictionary definitions for quotidian

quotidian

adjective

(esp of attacks of malarial fever) recurring daily

everyday; commonplace

noun

a malarial fever characterized by attacks that recur daily

Word Origin for quotidian

C14: from Latin quotīdiānus, variant of cottīdiānus daily

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Word Origin and History for quotidian

quotidian

adj.

mid-14c., "everyday, daily," from Old French cotidian (Modern French quotidien), from Latin quotidianus "daily," from Latin quotus "how many? which in order or number?" (see quote (v.)) + dies "day" (see diurnal). Meaning "ordinary, commonplace, trivial" is from mid-15c.

Medicine definitions for quotidian

quotidian

[kwō-tĭd′ē-ən]

adj.

Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.

quotidian

adjective

noun

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quotidian

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quotidian

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