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.

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

Contemporary Examples

To read their letters is a similar exercise, even when the correspondence regards only quotidian matters.
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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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Historical Examples

It was wont to be esteemed an ordinary visnomy, a quotidian merely.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Charles Lamb
It is a quotidian truth that few before him had the courage or clairvoyancy to enunciate.
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Sometimes the fever simulated a quotidian, sometimes a tertian.
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Charles Creighton
For our quotidian difficulties his example promises no solution.
Prophets of Dissent
Otto Heller
It is in this daring to be quotidian and contemporary that his claim to a position in the history of the novel mainly consists.
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George Saintsbury

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

C14: from Latin quotīdiānus, variant of cottīdiānus daily

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Word Origin and History for 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.

quotidian in Medicine

quotidian

(kwō-tĭd′ē-ən)

adj.

Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.

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Examples from the Web for quotidian

Contemporary Examples

To read their letters is a similar exercise, even when the correspondence regards only quotidian matters.

Videos uploaded by some mothers and fathers are less of a reach out than a simple continuation of their quotidian Internet habits.

We Think Alone feels at first somehow too quotidian and mundane, wholly un-artlike.

The other extreme is “rooted in very quiet, quotidian, perhaps more conventionally Japanese forms of narrative.”

Creator Matthew Weiner wants to ensure that even the most quotidian of details about the plot remain concealed.

Historical Examples

It was wont to be esteemed an ordinary visnomy, a quotidian merely.

It is a quotidian truth that few before him had the courage or clairvoyancy to enunciate.

Sometimes the fever simulated a quotidian, sometimes a tertian.

For our quotidian difficulties his example promises no solution.

It is in this daring to be quotidian and contemporary that his claim to a position in the history of the novel mainly consists.

quotidian

Word Origin

Word Origin and History for quotidian

adj.

quotidian

Origin of quotidian