Other forms: periodicals
A periodical is a publication that appears at regular intervals. A monthly periodical, back issues of the periodical, an academic periodical.
It covers magazines and journals but not newspapers, which are dailies of their own kind. Libraries keep them in a separate section, since a periodical is catalogued as a run rather than as a book.
1nounperiodicalA publication that appears at regular intervals.
“The library keeps old issues of scientific periodicals in the basement.”
periodical is a publication.
Medieval Latin
periodus
Middle French
periode
Middle English
periode
English
period
English, today
periodical
Built from
From period + -ical. period comes from Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus. From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (“circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (“around”) + ὁδός (“way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA