cognate
[kog-neyt]
adjective
related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
Linguistics. descended from the same language or form: such cognate languages as French and Spanish.
allied or similar in nature or quality.
noun
a person or thing cognate with another.
a cognate word: The English word cold is a cognate of German kalt.
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RELATED WORDS
agnate, like, generic, universal, kindred, same, general, incident, affiliated, akin, allied, analogous, comparable, connected, related, similar, connate, connatural, consanguine
Nearby words
- cogitate,
- cogitation,
- cogitative,
- cogito, ergo sum,
- cognac,
- cognate object,
- cognatic,
- cognation,
- cognisance,
- cognisant
Origin of cognate
1635–45; < Latin cognātus, equivalent to co- co- + -gnātus (past participle of gnāscī, nāscī to be born)
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Word Origin for cognate
C17: from Latin cognātus, from co- same + gnātus born, variant of nātus, past participle of nāscī to be born
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cognate
1640s, from Latin cognatus "of common descent," from com- "together" (see co-) + gnatus, past participle of gnasci, older form of nasci "to be born" (see genus). Words that are cognates are cousins, not siblings. As a noun, from 1754.
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