cotidie Latin · revision 33035

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔˈtiː.di.eː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈtiː.di.e]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cotīdiē''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''cottīdiē'', the commoner spelling of the OLD and of early inscriptions.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

+ The spelling ''quotīdiē'' is less correct.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|quot|t=how many]] or a form ⟨*quottī⟩ from [[m|la|quotus|t=which in number]], and [[m|la|diēs|t=day]], but some details are unclear.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary reports de Vaan's view that the ⟨ī⟩ is due to [[m|la|postrīdiē]], and notes that the spelling with ⟨tt⟩ appears earlier in inscriptions, with no clear explanation.^(Wiktionary) The TLL takes it as perhaps a locative of an adjective meaning “which in number”, first “on whatever day”.^(TLL) Roman grammarians argued over it: Quintilian calls the spelling ⟨quotīdiē⟩, as if from ⟨quot diēbus⟩, a frigid pedantry, while Velius Longus and others derive it not from ⟨quotō diē⟩ but from ⟨continentī diē⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) Terence has a dialogue: did he go to Bacchis? Every day.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means every day, daily, and with words of growing or lessening day by day: Cicero writes to Atticus that he sends ever shorter letters every day, as he suspects more each day that Atticus has left for Epirus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The declamations ascribed to Quintilian use it of every night.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it absent from Lucilius, Catullus, Horace and all the dactylic poets except an inscription and Commodian.^(TLL) Manuscripts have both ''cottīdiē'' and ''cotīdiē'', and ''quotīdiē'' rarely, mostly in later authors; inscriptions have ''cottīdiē'', as the Lex Iulia municipalis and the edict of Diocletian, and ''cotīdiē''.^(TLL) It lives on in [[pt|cotio]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of daily visits.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of daily letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian criticises the spelling ''quotīdiē''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Every day, [[m|en|daily]]; day by day.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cotidianus|alt=cotīdiānus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dies|alt=diēs]]

+ * [[quot]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}