quotidianum

• Language: Latin
• Romanized: quotidianum
• Original script: quotidianum
• Gloss: daily

Jerome’s daily rendering in Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer. The Western liturgical tradition largely followed this reading — the strange Greek epiousios became the ordinary loaf asked for each day — and so trained the petition that became reflex in the West.

Related entries

• Epiousios — the Greek word it translates
• Supersubstantialem — Jerome’s alternative Matthean rendering
• Crastinum — Jerome’s gloss for mahar
• Mahar — the reported Aramaic reading
• Ton Arton Hemon Ton Epiousion — the Matthean petition phrase