Origin of SOVREMENNYJ in Russian

[Wayles Browne]

A colleague in comparative literature asked me when the word 
SOVREMENNYJ showed up in Russian and where it is from. It is 
presumably a calque or loan-translation. Vasmer's etymological 
dictionary suggests a Latin or Greek source. Does anyone have more 
precise information?
-- 

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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