quotidian
pronunciation
How to pronounce quotidian in British English:
UK [kwɒˈtɪdiən]
How to pronounce quotidian in American English:
US [kwoʊˈtɪdiən]
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- Adjective:
- found in the ordinary course of events
Word Origin
- quotidian (adj.)
- mid-14c., "everyday, daily," from Old French cotidian (Modern French quotidien), from Latin quotidianus "daily," from Latin quotus "how many? which in order or number?" (see quote (v.)) + dies "day" (see diurnal). Meaning "ordinary, commonplace, trivial" is from mid-15c.
Example
- 1. Facebook rapidly became a vast micro-publisher of the quotidian scribblings of its millions of inhabitants .
- 2. Since then , other researchers have come up with other quotidian examples of event horizons .
- 3. With the eyes of a doctor , he recorded the quotidian and the overlooked .
- 4. That is what made his observations so rich : they were the very synthesis of academic insight and quotidian occurrence , of life researched and life lived .
- 5. I was also far away from news the credit crunch in particular , which had become pestersome by late winter and quotidian woes .