temporaneous
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin temporāneus (“timely”), derived from Latin tempor- (“time”).
Adjective
temporaneous (comparative more temporaneous, superlative most temporaneous)
- (obsolete) temporary
- 1818, James Carver, A Treatise on the Age of the Horse:
- Oxen have a permanent and temporaneous set of horns
- 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
- Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.
Related terms
References
- “temporaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.