quotidian [kwoʊˈtɪdiən] a.
1.) Everyday; commonplace.
2.) Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria (The American Heritage Dictionary of English).
Etymology: Middle English cotidien, from Old French, from Latin quotidianus, from quotidia, each day: quot, how many, as many as + dia, ablative of dias, day.
"Tonight on The Report: death, sadness, despair, and disease; the myriad miseries of our quotidian existence; life as suffering; the world as sorrow; history as a nightmare from which no man can awake; and time as the dolorous thread doomed to perpetually circumnavigate—in ever wider circles—the pool of fate. Jon?" (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Steve Bodow (Head Writer), March 29 2007).
6 comments:
I should use this one on a quotidian basis...
Oh I would write this as in French, "quotidien". Somehow it looks weird with the "a".
"Used especially of attacks of malaria" <-- so random. Why not the flu, or the common cold?
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ryc: I never have bad ideas for a post.
Now, let's test that search bar.... Well what do you know! It does what you said it does! Well well well... I thought it was one of those "search the internet for blogs containing the word [insert whatever]"-thingies. Never even bothered testing it until today.
Nothing quotidian about Hurricane Sandy.
I dig like this one. Super ultra fancy, but I've been needing that for these basic ideas. Thanks!
I think I can manage pronouncing that one without breaking my mouth
thanks for the new word, listed in my notebook!
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