coetaneous
English
Alternative forms
- coætaneous (archaic)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin coaetaneus (“one of the same age”).
Adjective
coetaneous (comparative more coetaneous, superlative most coetaneous)
- Belonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
- 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: Macmillan, page 251:
- The beginning of [Theodore] Parker's own perplexities was almost coetaneous with the establishment of Brook Farm, for his 'Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Religion,' which was preached at the ordination of Mr. Shackford in South Boston, on May 19, 1841, occasioned the division of the religious community for and against him.
Synonyms
- contemporaneous; see also Thesaurus:contemporary
Translations
contemporary — see contemporary
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “coetaneous”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.