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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