different between habitual vs daily

English

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habitu?lis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit +? -ual. Habitus is derived from habe? (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?w?l/, /-tj?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??b?.t??.?l/, /h??b?.t?(w)?l/
• Hyphenation: ha?bit?u?al, ha?bit?ual

Adjective

habitual (comparative more habitual, superlative most habitual)

1. Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
2. Regular or usual.

   Synonyms: accustomed, customary
3. Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
4. (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.

   Synonym: consuetudinal

Alternative forms

• habituall (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

habitual (plural habituals)

1. (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
2. (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.

Translations

References

Further reading

• habit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi.tu?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.bi.tu?al/

Adjective

habitual (masculine and feminine plural habituals)

1. habitual; usual

Derived terms

• habitualment

Further reading

• “habitual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Adjective

habitual m or f (plural habituais)

1. habitual
2. common

Portuguese

Adjective

habitual m or f (plural habituais, comparable)

1. habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)
2. habitual (recurring, or that is performed over and over again)

Related terms

• hábito

Romanian

Etymology

From French habituel.

Adjective

habitual m or n (feminine singular habitual?, masculine plural habituali, feminine and neuter plural habituale)

1. usual

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin habitu?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi?twal/, [a.??i?t?wal]

Adjective

habitual (plural habituales)

1. habitual

Noun

habitual m (plural habituales)

1. (Louisiana) beans

Derived terms

• habitualmente

Related terms

• hábito
• habituar

Further reading

• “habitual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• dayly (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?li, IPA^(key): /?de?li/
• Rhymes: -e?li

Etymology 1

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæ?l??, from Proto-Germanic *dagal?kaz (“daily”), equivalent to day +? -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Adjective

daily (not comparable)

1. That occurs every day, or at least every working day
   • 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan

     Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
2. diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

Synonyms

• journal (obsolete)
• quotidian

Derived terms

• daily bread
• daily double

Translations

Noun

daily (plural dailies)

1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
   1. A newspaper that is published every day.
   2. (Britain) A cleaner who comes in daily.
   3. (Britain, slang) A daily disposable.
   4. (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
   5. (US, automotive, colloquial) A daily driver.

Synonyms

• (cleaner who comes daily): daily help, daily maid (woman only)
• (newspaper published every day): daily paper

Translations

Verb

daily

1. (US, automotive, colloquial) To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæ?l??e (found only as dæ?hw?ml??e), equivalent to day +? -ly.

Adverb

daily (not comparable)

1. quotidianly, every day
2. diurnally, by daylight

Translations

See also

• annual
• everyday
• hebdomadal
• monthly
• nightly
• quotidian
• weekly
• yearly

Anagrams

• Lydia, lydia, ylaid