| \kwoh-TID-ee-uh n\ | adjective
1. usual or customary; everyday: quotidian needs.
2. daily: a quotidian report.
| | Quotes | Gradually the new style becomes everyday, quotidian, rendered neutral. No matter how exotic it is, like a morsel to which an amoeba is attracted and which it surrounds and takes into itself, it is devoured and becomes part of the transparent flowing substance of the amoeba.
-- Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos, 1983 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of quotidian | | Quotidian comes from Middle English and Middle French cotidian, cotidien. This ultimately comes from the Latin adjective cottīdiānus, cōtīdiānus, quōtīdiānus "daily," a derivative of the adverb cottīdiē, cōtīdiē, quōtīdiē "every day," from an unattested fossilized noun phrase quottī diē. It entered English in the late 1300s. | |
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