different between concomitate vs concomitant

English

Etymology

French concomitant

Verb

concomitate (third-person singular simple present concomitates, present participle concomitating, simple past and past participle concomitated)

1. (transitive) To accompany; to be somehow connected with.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

     This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.

Latin

Participle

concomit?te

1. vocative masculine singular of concomit?tus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?m?t?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?k??m?t?nt/

Adjective

concomitant (not comparable)

1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

   • 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.

   • 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

Noun

concomitant (plural concomitants)

1. Something happening or existing at the same time.

   Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence

   • 1900, James Strachey (translator), Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 301:

     It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg.93

     The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.

2. (algebra) An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Synonyms

• divariant

Related terms

• concomitance
• concomitantly
• concomitate

References

• “concomitant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concomit?ns, the present participle of Latin concomitor (“I accompany”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?.mi.t??/

Adjective

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

1. concomitant

Further reading

• “concomitant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).