contemporanee

Contemporanee is a Romance-language form of the adjective meaning "contemporary" or "belonging to the present time." It derives from Latin contemporarius and appears in Italian and French with gender and number inflections rather than as a stand-alone English word.

In Italian, contemporanee is the feminine plural form of contemporaneo. It is used with feminine plural nouns such as opere contemporanee (contemporary works) or donne contemporanee (contemporary women). The masculine plural form is contemporanei, the feminine singular is contemporanea, and the masculine and feminine endings differ accordingly.

In French, the standard forms are contemporaine (feminine singular) and contemporaines (feminine plural). They occur in phrases like l’art contemporain and les œuvres contemporaines. The masculine forms are contemporain and contemporains. An unaccented spelling such as contemporanee may appear in non-accented text or stylized titles, but it is not standard modern French orthography.

In English-language contexts, contemporanee is uncommon and generally regarded as nonstandard; the usual form is contemporary.

Related terms include contemporaneité (French noun for contemporaneity) and the English word contemporary.