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Cognate

Cognate Meaning & Definition
Cognate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cognate?

[n] a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
[n] one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
[adj] related by blood
[adj] (linguistics) having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"
[adj] related in nature; "connate qualities"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cognate: akin(p) | blood relation | blood relative | blood-related | cognate word | connate | consanguine | consanguineous | kin(p) | related | related to | sib

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cognate: affiliated | affinal | affinitive | agnate | akin | allied | ally | alter ego | analogon | analogue | ancestry | associate | avuncular | blood | blood relation | blood relative | brother | clansman | close copy | close match | closely related | collateral | collateral relative | common | companion | complement | congenator | congener | congeneric | congenerous | congenial | connate | connatural | connected | connections | consanguine | consanguinean | consanguineous | conspecific | coordinate | correlate | correlative | correspondent | counterpart | derivation | derivative | distaff side | distant relation | distantly related | doublet | enate | eponym | equivalent | etymon | family | fellow | flesh | flesh and blood | folks | foster | general | generic | genetically related | german | germane | image | incident | kin | kindred | kindred spirit | kinfolk | kinnery | kinsfolk | kinsman | kinsmen | kinswoman | kith and kin | like | likeness | mate | matrilateral | matrilineal | matroclinous | near duplicate | near relation | next of kin | novercal | obverse | of common source | of the blood | parallel | patrilateral | patrilineal | patroclinous | pendant | people | picture | posterity | primitive | reciprocal | related | related by blood | relations | relatives | root | second self | sib | sibling | similitude | simulacrum | sister | soul mate | spear kin | spear side | spindle kin | spindle side | such | suchlike | sword side | tally | the like of | the likes of | tribesman | twin | universal | uterine | uterine kin

See Also | relation | relative | word

Cognate In Webster's Dictionary

\Cog"nate\, a. [L. cognatus; co- + gnatus, natus, p. p. of nasci, anciently gnasci, to be born. See {Nation}, and cf. {Connate}.] 1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side. 2. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
\Cog"nate\, n. 1. (Law) One who is related to another on the female side. --Wharton. 2. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

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