Quotidian

Definition: Quotidian

Quotidian

Adjective

1. Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quotidian" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Quotidian

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten;

Crosswords: Quotidian

Books

• Chinese Modern: The Heroic and Quotidian (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (reference)

• Goethe / Grcic: Quotidian Objects (reference)

• Quotidian (reference)

• The Art of the Everyday: The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture (reference)

• The Prince of the Quotidian (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i përditshëm (daily, day to day, diurnal, everyday, ferial, homely, mundane, ordinary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يومي (daily, diurnal, workaday), ‏جريدة يومية (newspaper), ‏السجان (gaoler, jailer, jailor, keeper, provost, turnkey, warder). (various references)

Bulgarian 

малария котидиана, ежедневен (daily, diurnal, everyday), банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hack, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, tired, trite, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Czech

každodenní (casual, daily, diurnal, everyday, weekly, workaday). (various references)

French

quotidien. (various references)

German

täglich (daily, day to day, diurnal, every day, everyday). (various references)

Greek 

καθημερινόσ πυρετόσ, ημερήσιοσ (daily, diurnal). (various references)

Hebrew 

יומי (daily, diurnal). (various references)

Hungarian

mindennapos (common, daily, diurnal, everyday, jog-trot, of common occurrence, rife, stock in trade), köznapi (casual, commonplace, drab), naponkénti (circadian, daily, diurnal), napi (circadian, current events, daily, day, diurnal, per day), mindennapos váltóláz (quotidian fever), mindennapi (accustomed, common, daily, day to day, everyday, funny, workaday), elkoptatott (commonplace, corny, hackneyed, worn-out), banális (banal, commonplace, corny, dismal, stale, trite). (various references)

Italian

quotidiano (daily, everyday). (various references)

Pig Latin

otidianquay

Portuguese

quotidiano (daily), vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, gossipy, gross, hackney, hackneyed, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-minded, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian, penny-a-line, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), diário (daily, daily newspaper, day in day out, day-book, day-by-day, diary, diurnal, everyday, newspaper, workaday), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, prosy, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references)

Russian 

ежедневный (daily, everyday). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svakodnevni (daily, day to day, everyday, mundane, ordinary), običan (common, habitual, ordinary, plain, prosaic, unexceptionable, unexceptional, usual). (various references)

Spanish

cotidiano (daily, day to day). (various references)

Swedish

daglig (daily, diurnal). (various references)

Thai

เป็นประจำ, สิ่งที่เกิ�"ขึ้นทุกวัน, อาการมีไข้ทุกวัน, อย่างเคย, รายวัน, ธรรม�"า (basic, hackneyed, lowly). (various references)

Turkish

sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, everyday, of every day, per diem, ready, routine, usual), her gün olan sıtma nöbeti, günlük (casually, daily, day to day, daybook, diary, diurnal, everyday, frankincense, fresh, journal, of every day, per diem, workaday), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, everyday, leisure, per diem, ready, workaday), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

щоденна доза, щоденний (daily, diurnal, everyday, service), малярія (ague, malaria, paludism, shivers), банальний (banal, commonplace, hack, hackneyed, humdrum, obvious, platitudinous, trite, worn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hằng ng� y tầm thường. (various references)

Welsh

beunyddiol (daily). (various references)

quotus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quotidian": quotidians. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quotidian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kotadia, quoitidian, quotdidian, quotedian, Quotidie, quotidien, quotidienne, quotitian, quoyidian. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: audition.

-2 letters: quinoid.

-3 letters: diquat, quaint, quinoa, quinta.

-4 letters: audio, audit, danio, daunt, donut, idiot, iodin, nitid, oidia, quant, quint, quoin, quoit, quota, tondi.

-5 letters: adit, anti, aunt, auto, dato, daut, dint, dita, doat, doit, dona, duit, dunt, inia, inti, into, iota, naoi, nidi, nodi, nota, qaid, quad, quai, quid, quin, quit, quod, tain, toad.

+1 letter: quotidians.

+2 letters: liquidation.

+3 letters: liquidations.

+4 letters: quadrillionth.

+5 letters: quadrillionths.