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prettygoodwordWhile we're on the subject of a day:
hodiernal (hoh-dee-ER-nl) - adj., (arch., rare outside of linguistics) of or occurring on the current day; today.
The linguistics application is to a hodiernal tense used by some languages, used for actions that take place in the speaker's today -- so a specific kind of present tense. Outside of this, yeah, it's uncommon and pretty much has only literary uses. Interestingly, it's part of a series of arch. and rare time words, along with crastinal (of tomorrow) and hesternal (of yesterday). (And yes, there are languages with crastinal or hesternal tenses, distinguished from the rest of the future and the rest of the past.) From Latin, naturally, from hodiernus, from hodie, today, contraction of hoc die, this day.
---L.
hodiernal (hoh-dee-ER-nl) - adj., (arch., rare outside of linguistics) of or occurring on the current day; today.
The linguistics application is to a hodiernal tense used by some languages, used for actions that take place in the speaker's today -- so a specific kind of present tense. Outside of this, yeah, it's uncommon and pretty much has only literary uses. Interestingly, it's part of a series of arch. and rare time words, along with crastinal (of tomorrow) and hesternal (of yesterday). (And yes, there are languages with crastinal or hesternal tenses, distinguished from the rest of the future and the rest of the past.) From Latin, naturally, from hodiernus, from hodie, today, contraction of hoc die, this day.
---L.
