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Friday, June 24, 2005

Quotidian

quo·tid·i·an (kwō-tĭd'ē-ən)
adj.

1. Everyday; commonplace: “There's nothing quite like a real... train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute” (Anita Diamant).
2. Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.


[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

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