diary

diary
\ \ [16] Like its semantic cousin journal, a diary is literally adailyrecord. It comes from Latin diarium, a derivative of diēsday’.
\ \ Originally in classical Latin the word meantdaily allowance of food or pay’, and only subsequently came to be applied to arecord of daily events’. From the 17th to the 19th century English also had an adjective diary, from Latin diarius, meaninglasting for one day’.

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