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adj
Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary, not-comparable, regional
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: current, present-day
Antonyms: none provided
History
From hodiern (“of this day, present-day”) + -al (suffix forming adjectives). Hodiern is derived from Latin hodiernus (“of today, today’s; present, present-day; actual”), from hodiē (“today”) (from hōc (“this (thing)”) + diē (“day”) (ultimately Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to be bright; heaven, sky”))) + -rnus (suffix forming adjectives).
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
