Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

concomitant

 

(adj.) occurring with something else, accompanying; (n.) an accompanying thing

 

The Renaissance brought with it a renewed interest in the art and ideas of classical Greece and Rome and a concomitant shift in focus away from the divine and toward the human; thus, for example, halos disappeared in 16th-century art.

 

Related English words: concomitance, concomitancy

 

Latin root words: comitor, comitari, comitatus sum - to accompany; comes, comitis, m/f. - companion

 

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