quotidian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
Inflected forms:
form: more quotidian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quotidian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: quotidians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening every day; daily.
pos: adj
examples: I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.
gloss: Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
pos: adj
examples: The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.
Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.
They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
gloss: Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
pos: adj
examples: Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.
I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.
gloss: Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
pos: adj
examples: His life took on a quotidian humdrum.
Their careers, although often high paying, prestigious and meaningful (at least to an outsider looking in), had become boring, quotidian, dull, unstimulating, and repetitive.
The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
gloss: A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.
I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]
gloss: A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
pos: noun
tags: usually
with-definite-article
examples: More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.
Zamenhof realized early on that one of the best ways of bringing Esperanto to life is through translated literature – through rendering in Esperanto events and ideas, conversations and encounters, that have yet to occur in real life in that language. Literary creation has always broadened our experience beyond the quotidian; it can also broaden a language.
She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
Related words: practical
secular
worldly
Derived words: metaquotidian
quotidianly
quotidianness
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