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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?
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cotidian?Off hand, i'd say a misspelling for quotidian, i.e., 'daily'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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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.
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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
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My Collins Gem Latin dictionary turns it around. Looking up quotid- directs one to cottid- Cottidianus is translated as daily; everyday, ordinary.
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"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.
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>Or maybe it's just another example of academese.
that'd be my bet!
-joe (inkhorn) friday
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Or maybe 'academise'? 
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