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hodiernal.

Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/həʊdiˈɜːnl̩/Received-Pronunciation/hɒ-/Received-Pronunciation/hoʊˈdi.ərn(ə)l/General-American/hɑ-/General-American
  1. Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.

    archaic · literary · not-comparable · regional
Where this word comes from

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).

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