cotidie

Latin

Alternative forms

• cottīdiē
• quotīdiē

Etymology

See quot and diēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koːˈtiː.di.eː/, [koːˈt̪iːd̪ieː] or IPA^(key): /koˈtiː.di.eː/, [kɔˈt̪iːd̪ieː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈti.di.e/, [koˈt̪iːd̪ie]

Adverb

cō̆tīdiē (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.

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

• cottīdiānus/ cotīdiānus/ quotīdiānus
• cottīdiō/ cotīdiō

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • everyday experience tells us this: res ipsa, usus rerum (cotidie) docet