cotidian?
What does it mean? or even a context to fit it in?

Here is the sentence in which this word appears.


""Papers will explore official discourses about vice and contraband in comparison to their cotidian reality.""

I have worked through two dictionaries, and have resorted to asking for help....Nothing in the general context of the paragraph, which is part of an academic announcement, gives me a clue what this means.

Any ideas?

cotidian?

Off hand, i'd say a misspelling for quotidian, i.e., 'daily'.

Or either a variant spelling. The B&M OED has a minor listing for it referencing Quoti-. And for a definition I'd go with everyday, commonplace, which is what Nuncle's link says, rather than daily.

or else an olde or Romanian spelling.

(note def'n in Kurath's dictionary: (a) Daily; also, continual, unceasing; (b) usual, habitual; ordinary, everyday.)

-joe (three-way) friday

My Collins Gem Latin dictionary turns it around. Looking up quotid- directs one to cottid- Cottidianus is translated as daily; everyday, ordinary.

"Papers will explore official discourses about vice and contraband in comparison to their cotidian reality."

I wonder what the writer's native language is. Or maybe it's just another example of academese.

>Or maybe it's just another example of academese.

that'd be my bet!

-joe (inkhorn) friday

Or maybe 'academise'?