English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“I accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“I accompany”), from comes (“companion”).

Pronunciation [ edit ]

( UK ) IPA (key) : /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/

IPA : ( US ) IPA (key) : /kənˈkɑːmətənt/

IPA : Audio (US)

Adjective [ edit ]

concomitant (not comparable)

Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. accompanying adjoining attendant incidental 1689 , John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ‎ [1] : It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, [ … ]

1939 June, “What the Railways are Doing: London Transport Air Raid Precautions”, in Railway Magazine , page 462: The visitors saw the measures taken immediately before, during, and after an "air raid", which included a gas and high-explosive bomb attack. The concomitant noise "effects" sounded grimly realistic.

1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books , pg. 41: The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

, Alvin Toffler, , , pg. 41: 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501 With technological improvement, therefore, it will become possible, in a succession of steady states, to have a larger and larger amount of capital equipment available to each representative worker in the economy, with a concomitant rise in productivity.

Translations [ edit ]

Noun [ edit ]

concomitant (plural concomitants)

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French [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

Borrowed from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of Latin concomitor (“I accompany”)

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Adjective [ edit ]

concomitant (feminine singular concomitante, masculine plural concomitants, feminine plural concomitantes)

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