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concomitant

Pronunciation: /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/

The English word “concomitant” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.
  2. Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.

noun

  1. Something happening or existing at the same time.
  2. An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Etymology

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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