coeval
See also: coëval
English
Alternative forms
- coæval (archaic)
- coëval
Etymology
From Late Latin coaevus, from Latin con- (“equal”) + aevum (“age”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊˈiːvəl/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊˈi.vəl/
Adjective
coeval (not comparable)
- Of the same age; contemporary.
- Synonyms: contemporaneous; see also Thesaurus:contemporary
- Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
- The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.
- 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia:
- The differences between the Sao Khua dinosaur assemblage and the roughly coeval assemblages in China, notably those from the Jehol Group of NE China, have already been noted, and several hypotheses have been put forward, including differences in taphonomic conditions, and the existence of geographical or environmental barriers (Buffetaut et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2009).
Translations
of the same age
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Noun
coeval (plural coevals)
- Something of the same era.
- The telephone and television are coevals in that film.
- Somebody of the same age.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Crest Giant; D338), Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, published December 1959, OCLC 768447, part 1, page 18:
- […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
- 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 77:
- “That's your coeval, Keluga. He's trying to write the entire Roget's as a series of nested, rule-based schematics. Containment, relation, exclusion . . .”
“Coeval? I'm thirty-five, Lentz. That guy's a kid.”
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Translations
something of the same era
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somebody of the same age
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Anagrams
- alcove