CONCOMITANT: accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way
"Concomitant" was introduced into English at a time when many people were criticizing the use of Latinate forms in favor of more "native" words from Old English. As a descendant of the Latin concomitari ("to accompany") and ultimately of comes, the Latin word for a companion, "concomitant" may well have been initially derided as an ostentatious inkhorn term. Indeed, two associated words, the verb "concomitate, which means "to accompany," and another adjective, "concomitaneous," meaning "of a concomitant nature," didn't last to accompany "concomitant" into the 18th century.
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