contempo

English

Etymology

Clipping of contemporary.

Adjective

contempo (comparative more contempo, superlative most contempo)

  1. (informal) Contemporary; modern.
    • 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security, Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, page 1141:
      You get “sex education" now in both high school and college classes: everyone determined not to be embarassed[sic], to be very up to date, very contempo.
    • 2004, Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in The 1970s, page 23:
      It's all very contempo—as one might expect of the musical version of a film released just four years before.

Italian

Etymology

From con- +‎ tempo.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈtɛm.po/[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -ɛmpo
  • Hyphenation: con‧tèm‧po

Noun

contempo m (uncountable)

  1. only used in nel contempo (“at the same time”)
  2. (originally chiefly in Sicily)[3] only used in al contempo (“at the same time”)

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 contempo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ contempo, nel in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
  3. ^ https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/consulenza/nel-contempo-e-al-contempo/1762
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