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quotidian

Definition of quotidian

adjective

  • 1of or occurring every day; daily:the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic
  • ordinary or everyday; mundane:his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details
  • 2 Medicine denoting the malignant form of malaria.

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin quotidianus, earlier cotidianus, from cotidie 'daily'

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