cognate
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from com- + gnātus (“born”). Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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cognate (not comparable)
- Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
- Synonyms: akin, same-blooded; see also Thesaurus:consanguine
- Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
- Synonyms: allied, kindred, connate; see also Thesaurus:akin
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- This explanation provoked further great hilarity among the members of the committee. And the frankness was admired by many with which Louit, on his return, confessed to having found, in the course of his excursion, three barns in all, of which two contained empty bottles and the third the skeleton of a goat. But in other quarters this and cognate statements were viewed in another and less friendly light.
- (linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Usage notes
“Cognate to” is much less common than “cognate with” and not even mentioned in most dictionaries.
Derived terms
Translations
kindred by birth
descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language
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Noun
cognate (plural cognates)
- One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
- (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
- Hypernym: paronym
- Coordinate terms: etymon, derivative/reflex
Derived terms
Translations
word derived from the same roots as a given word
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Related terms
See also
Further reading
cognate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - cognate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cognates in the 1879 edition of The American Cyclopædia.
Anagrams
Noun
cognate f
Adjective
cognāte
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