What does "contemporal" mean?

Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action occurs (and is completed) immediately before the primary action of the statement.

Contemporal

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action occurs (and is completed) immediately before the primary action of the statement. not-comparable

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contemporālis.

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