Added 9 October 2026
concomitant
/kənˈkɒmɪtənt/ adjective
Latin root: concomitāns First recorded: 1607 Wiktionary
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- Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
noun
- Something happening or existing at the same time.
- An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
Origin
First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).
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