DAILY Copy link • DAILY 1. quotidianus (happening every day, customary; but not necessarily taking up the whole day): diurnus (recurring every day, and having some reference to the whole day). Daily food, victus quotidianus (one’s usual daily food); cena quotidiana (one’s usual dinner; opposed to cena magnifica); victus diurnus; cibus diurnus (daily rations, the rations prepared for the whole day; e.g., of the slaves): to seek their daily bread, victum diurnum quaerere. 2. adverb, quotidie; in dies singulos (quotidie applies to things that are daily repeated; in singulos dies, to things that, from day to day, increase or decrease; Cic., Att., 5, 7. Quotidie, vel potius in singulos dies breviores litteras ad te mitto, Döderlein).