contubernal

adjective

1. Living in close proximity (as though sharing a tent); intimate, familiar.

   rare

   Tributes between poets, chess champions, couturiers—and novelists—are always hopefully contubernal. All such donors really yearn for others to see that the honored one lives in a tent they share.

Where it comes from

From Latin contubernālis, from contubernium (“companionship in a tent”), from con- + taberna (“a hut, shed, tent”). More at tavern.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry contubernal (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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