cotidie
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈtiː.di.eː/, [kɔˈt̪iːd̪ieː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈti.di.e/, [koˈt̪iːd̪ie]
- 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
[edit]cotīdiē (not comparable)
- 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.
- Interim cotidie Caesar Haeduos frumentum, quod essent publice polliciti, flagitare.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See cottidie.
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fortson, Benjamin W. (2008) Language and Rhythm in Platus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies, page 35
- ^ Kiss, Dániel (2009) Catullus 68 : edited with an introduction and a detailed commentary (Thesis)[1]
- ^ 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
[edit]- “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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- everyday experience tells us this: res ipsa, usus rerum (cotidie) docet
- everyday experience tells us this: res ipsa, usus rerum (cotidie) docet