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cross-cousin

noun

Etymology

From cross- + cousin.

  1. derived from *swésōr✻ — “sister”
  2. derived from *swezrīnos✻ — “of or belonging to a sister”
  3. derived from *cōsuīnus✻
  4. derived from cōnsobrīnus — “maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”
  5. derived from cosine — “collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”
  6. derived from cosine
  7. derived from cosine
  8. derived from cosin — “collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”
  9. derived from cosin
  10. derived from cosen
  11. inherited from cosin
  12. formed as cross-cousin — “cross- + cousin”

Definitions

  1. The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother

    The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother; a cousin related via opposite-gender siblings rather than same-gender ones (the latter being a parallel cousin).

    • Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cross-cousin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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