The story
- Latin · derived fromcon-“with, together”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromcontemporārius
- English todaycontemporary
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latincontemporārius all →
time-fellow
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.