cotidie

cotidie

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Equivalent to quot + diēs; some details are unclear. Per De Vaan, the -ī- is by analogy with postrīdiē.[1] The spelling with -tt- appears to be attested earlier in inscriptions,[2] although there is no obvious explanation for the etymological origin of the geminate.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈtiː.di.eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈtiː.di.e]
  • In early poetry, the first syllable of this word (or that of the derived adjective cotīdiānus) 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 first attested in Martial[2] (11, 1, 2). The second syllable normally scans heavy, but the scansion cōtĭd- (or cottĭd-) is found in the manuscripts of Catullus 68, 139: "flagrantem cotidiana/quotidiana/cottidiana". (However, it has been suggested this should be emended to something else[3] like "contudit iram", "condidit iram"[4] or "concoquit iram".)

Adverb

cotīdiē (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 26:
      Quī etiam addiscunt aliquid? Ut et Solōnem versibus glōriantem vidēmus quī sē cotīdiē aliquid addiscentem dīcit senem fierī.
      What of those [elderly people] who even continue to learn something new? For we see it in Solon, boasting in poetry that he himself is learning something new every day, he says, as he grows older.

Derived terms

Descendants

See cottidie.

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “quot”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fortson, Benjamin W. (2008), Language and Rhythm in Platus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies, page 35
  3. ^ Kiss, Dániel (2009) Catullus 68 : edited with an introduction and a detailed commentary (Thesis)‎[1]
  4. ^ Lafaye, Georges (1922), “Notes critiques et explicatives sur Catulle”, in Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, volume 46, page 71

Further reading

  • “cotidie”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "cotidie", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • everyday experience tells us this: res ipsa, usus rerum (cotidie) docet
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