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Latin
Etymology
See quot and diēs.
Pronunciation
Adverb
cō̆tīdiē (not comparable)
- Daily, every day.
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.16:
- Interim cotidie Caesar Haeduos frumentum, quod essent publice polliciti, flagitare.
- Meanwhile, Caesar kept daily importuning the Aedui for the corn which they had promised in the name of their state.
Usage notes
- Usually but not always with short ŏ. For example, found as cŏtīd- in Martial 11, 1, 2; but as cōtĭd- in Catullus 68, 139.
Derived terms
Descendants
See cottidie.
References
- “cotidie”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cotidie in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cotidie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- everyday experience tells us this: res ipsa, usus rerum (cotidie) docet