Adjacent Words

Coetaneous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COETANEOUS, a. Of the same age with another; beginning to exist at the same time; with to. Every fault has penal effects, coetaneous to the act. But with may be preferable to to. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with cotemporary; but coetaneous seems properly to denote cotemporary in origin, rather than cotemporary in existence at any other period. It may however be used in both senses.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of the same period [syn: coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin coaetaneus, from co- + aetas age — more at age Date: 1608 coeval

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coetaneous Co`e*ta"ne*ous, a. [L. coaetaneus; co- + aetas age.] Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all [members of the body] are coetaneous. --Bentley.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See coeval.