quotidian
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- adjective Everyday; commonplace: "There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute” (Anita Diamant).
- adjective Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.
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- I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr. Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in — Life of Johnson
- Swift asked the older man. — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- 'Neither have they, but I heard. — The Hawk Eternal
- He would not give up. — Morgawr
- Hiser turned. — Colors of Chaos
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- Middle English cotidien, from Old French, from Latin quōtīdiānus, from quōtīdiē, each day : quot, how many, as many as; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + diē, ablative of diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (kwō-tĭdˈē-ən)/
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