Belonging to the same time period; existing or happening at the same time as something else.
From co- plus 'temporanean', from Latin 'tempus' (time) with Greek-influenced '-anean' suffix. This highly formal variant was popular in scholarly and philosophical texts from the 16th-19th centuries.
Scholars in the Renaissance loved using 'cotemporanean'—it's like the intellectual version of today's overblown corporate jargon, designed to make you sound incredibly learned and precise about timing.
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