quotidian
/kwoʊˈtɪdiən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
adj
Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
noun
Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
Example Sentences
- "I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion."
- "The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred."
- "Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme."
- "Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc."
- "They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots."
- "Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cotidian, cottīdiānus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kwoʊˈtɪdiən/
- British English: /kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən/