coeval
- adjective
- /koʊˈiːvəl/
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coetáneo
- Today, archaeological evidence and art historical study show the calligraphy of the Admonitions inscriptions and their accompanying painted illustrations to be coeval and of the later Six Dynasties (fifth-sixth century) in date.
The Incarnate mind, the tongue and the tail, are in our world coeval.
- The Incarnate mind, the tongue and the tail, are in our world coeval.
Examples
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The two authors were coeval, both publishing their first books in 1995.
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Until recently, little acknowledgment of the coeval aspect of the modernists and traditionalists was given in the standard texts on African art.
Academic text (2005) -
Coeval in age, at that point they coexisted in mind as well.
Fiction book (1991) -
The fresco presents them as nearly coeval, action and reflex in approximation.
Academic text (1992) -
Gifts of food shared by ancestors and descendants, predecessors and successors, kinsmen and (until recently) kinswomen bind the clan together in the coeval community.
Academic text (1991) -
Although modern African art shared a similar temporal and conceptual matrix with modern art in Europe, emerging in definite form at the turn of the twentieth century, it is denied coeval identity in art-historical narratives.
Academic text (2015) -
The fossils were found in layers that are coeval with the earliest signs of life on Earth.
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During the Renaissance, many artists were coeval, influencing each other's styles and techniques.
Synonyms
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8.4
Happening at the same time as another thing
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9.6
Having the same limits in space, time, or meaning as something else
Happening at the same time as another thing
Existing at the same time as something else
Living or happening at the same time
Existing at the same time as something else
How Contemporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
coeval = co + aev + al
Built from the prefix 'co-' (together/with) + the Latin combining root 'aev' (age) + the adjectival suffix '-al'; the affixes are recognizable but the root is a learned combining form not a standalone English word, so the meaning is only partially recoverable.
Etymology
Coeval comes from Latin parts co- 'together' and aevum 'age', the same root you see in medieval. So if two things are coeval they belong to the same time and are 'of the same age'.