cognate
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Definitions
Allied by blood
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
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One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
One who is related to another on the female side.
One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal…
One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the…
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.
The neighborhood
- neighborcognate accusative
- neighboragnate
- neighborderivation
- neighboretymology
- neighboretymon
- neighborfalse friend
- neighborroot
Derived
cognately, cognateness, cognation, noncognate, cognacy, cognatic, cognatically, false cognate
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cognate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA