What is くも in this context?

Edit: woops sorry, just saw the short grammar topic. Will be sure to post there next time

あきあつくもさむくもありません。

I am assuming this roughly translates to

Autumn is hot and cold.

But I’m struggling with the grammar here. I am aware of (also/too) and the continuative くて form for i-adjectives.

Is the particle here replacing the in くて?

秋は暑くても寒くてもありません。

Thank you!

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Its not really hot nor cold.

(Meaning of く も in this sentence - Japanese Language Stack Exchange)

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Hot spiders and cold spiders. Autumn is full of 'em.

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Just wanted to point out that the title hurt my brain a bit.

You probably realize this, but the く and も serve very different purposes.

The く is part of the 形容詞(けいようし) (so called い-adjectives), e.g.「(あつ)い」(you have to change the い to a く when using the negative form: (あつ)くない or (あつ)くありません in polite form).

The も is a 助詞(じょし), a particle that works on it’s own. As usual, Tofugu does a good job explaining how this particle can be used.

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