cotidianus

• cottīdiānus, quotīdiānus

From cotīdiē + -ānus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔ.tiː.diˈaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.ti.diˈaː.nus]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koː.tiː.diˈaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.ti.diˈaː.nus]
• In early poetry, the first syllable of this word and of the base word cotīdiē/cottīdiē generally occurs in an anceps position, which would allow either a light or heavy syllable. The scansion cŏtīd-, with unambiguously light cŏ-, seems to be attested earliest in the poetry of Martial^[1] (see quotations below). The second syllable normally scans heavy, but the scansion cōtĭd- (or cottĭd-) is found in the manuscripts of Catullus 68, 139: "coniugis in culpa flagrantem cotidiana/quotidiana/cottidiana". However, the transmitted version of this line is grammatically problematic, and it has been suggested it should be emended to something else^[2] like "contudit iram", "condidit iram"^[3] or "concoquit iram". In cases where the first syllable scans heavy, it's not possible to determine whether the pronunciation contained a long vowel (i.e. cōt-) or a long consonant (i.e. cott-), but the latter seems likely based on the alternative spellings cottīdiē/cottīdiānus, which are attested earlier in inscriptions than spellings with single -t-.^[1]

cotīdiānus (feminine cotīdiāna, neuter cotīdiānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. daily, everyday, quotidian
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 4.37, (meter: choliamb, in a poem where every line begins with a heavy syllable):

     Cōtīdiānam refice nauseam nummīs

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   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 10.65, (meter: hendecasyllable):

     Lēvis drōpace tū cotīdiānō

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   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 11.1.2, (meter: hendecasyllable):

     Quō tū, quō, liber ōtiōse, tendis / cultus Sīdone nōn cotīdiāna?

     • 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

       Where, where are you going, holiday book, dressed in purple not of every day?

2. ordinary, pedestrian

   Synonyms: sollemnis, ūsuālis, ōrdinārius

First/second-declension adjective.

• (daily, everyday, quotidian): amphēmerinos (Grecian)

See cottidianus and quotidianus.

• “cotidianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cotidianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cotidianus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to adopt the language of everyday life: accedere ad cotidiani sermonis genus
    
  • the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: cotidiani sermonis usus
    
  • the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: sermo familiaris et cotidianus
    
  • daily bread: victus cotidianus
    
  • his means suffice to defray daily expenses: copiae cotidianis sumptibus suppetunt (vid. sect. IV. 2, note suppeditare...)
    
  • conversational language: sermo cotidianus, or simply sermo