quotidian

Meanings

Adjective

  • Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
  • Happening every day; daily.
  • Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary, mundane.

Noun

  • A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
  • A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
  • Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.

Origin

  • From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus, from adverb cottidie, quōtīdiē, from an unattested adjective derived from quot + locative form of diēs.

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