different between routine vs quotidian
routine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French routine.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?u??ti?n/
Noun
routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)
- A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
- A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
- Synonym: rut
- A set piece of an entertainer's act.
- (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
- Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine
Derived terms
- routiner
Translations
Adjective
routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)
- According to established procedure.
- Regular; habitual.
- Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
Derived terms
- routinely
Translations
Anagrams
- in route, in utero, tue-iron
French
Etymology
From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u.tin/
Noun
routine f (plural routines)
- routine (all senses)
- (Louisiana, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish) road
Derived terms
- prendre sa routine à volonté
Descendants
Further reading
- “routine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ouïrent
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French routine.
Noun
routine f (invariable)
- routine
- rut
Derived terms
- routinario
Anagrams
- rutenio, uterino
Further reading
- routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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quotidian
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cott?di?nus, qu?t?di?nus (“happening every day”), from adverb cott?di?, qu?t?di? (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of di?s (“day”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kw??t?d??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /kw??t?d??n/
Adjective
quotidian (comparative more quotidian, superlative most quotidian)
- (medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc). [from 14th c.]
- Happening every day; daily. [from 15th c.]
- Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary, mundane. [from 15th c.]
Translations
Noun
quotidian (plural quotidians)
- (medicine, now rare, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. [from 14th c.]
- (Anglicanism, historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. [from 16th c.]
- (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. [from 20th c.]
Translations
Interlingua
Adjective
quotidian (comparative plus quotidian, superlative le plus quotidian)
- daily
Derived terms
- quotidianmente
quotidian From the web:
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