Vocabularium

Here’s a versatile word that generally is used more in medical circles than elsewhere.

quotidian (quo·tid·i·an): / kwoh TID ee uhn /
adjective

(1) daily; occurring every day
(2) usual or customary; everyday; routine
(3) commonplace; ordinary; normal; usual
(4) recurring or flaring up daily; characterized by symptoms that recur daily, especially fever or ague (medical)

noun

(1) something that recurs daily
(2) a fever or ague that recurs daily (medical)

[From Middle English cotidian via Old French cotidien from Latin quotidianus meaning “daily,” from Latin quotidie meaning “every day,” formed from Latin quoti (locative form of quot, “many as, however many occur, every”) + dies (“day”).]

Usage: My quotidian commute would have been unbearable had it not been for the colorful train conductor who made every minute an adventure unto itself.

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