The word for today is…
collateral (adj) – 1. Situated or running side by side; parallel.
- Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.
- Serving to support or corroborate.
- Of a secondary nature; subordinate.
- Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation.
- Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.
(noun) – 1. Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.
- A collateral relative.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : Late 14th century, “accompanying, attendant” (especially as an auxiliary), also “descended from the same stock but in a different line” (distinguished from lineal), from Old French collateral (13th century.), from Medieval Latin collateralis “accompanying,” literally “side by side,” from assimilated form of Latin com “with, together” + lateralis “of the side,” from latus “the side, flank of humans or animals, lateral surface,” a word of uncertain origin.
Literal sense of “parallel, along the side of” attested in English from mid-15th century Related: Collaterally. Collateral damage is by 1873 in legal cases; in modern use, a euphemism for “the coincidental killing of civilians,” an extended sense from c. 1968, American English, at first generally with reference to nuclear weapons.
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