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cognate

[ kog-neyt ]

adjective

  1. related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
  2. Linguistics. descended from the same language or form:

    such cognate languages as French and Spanish.

  3. allied or similar in nature or quality.


noun

  1. a person or thing cognate with another.
  2. a cognate word:

    The English word cold is a cognate of German kalt.

cognate

/ ˈkɒɡneɪt /

adjective

  1. akin; related

    cognate languages

  2. related by blood or descended from a common maternal ancestor Compare agnate
  3. cognate object
    grammar a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something that is cognate with something else
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • cogˈnation, noun
  • ˈcognateness, noun
  • ˈcognately, adverb
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Other Words From

  • cognate·ness noun
  • cog·nat·ic [kog-, nat, -ik], adjective
  • non·cognate adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognate1

1635–45; < Latin cognātus, equivalent to co- co- + -gnātus (past participle of gnāscī, nāscī to be born)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognate1

C17: from Latin cognātus, from co- same + gnātus born, variant of nātus, past participle of nāscī to be born
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Example Sentences

The word “pajama” stems from Persian/Farsi, as I learned in my medieval Persian seminar in college after a life of speaking Farsi at home but somehow never registering the echo of this particular cognate.

But the last word in his name is a cognate for the Chinese word for death, which bothers more superstitious clientele.

There's no close cognate to Liz Truss in American politics, and there's definitely nothing similar to the bizarre intra-party process that has landed her in Downing Street.

From Salon

“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”

In the afterword to “Trust,” Lahiri explains why she chose not to use the English cognate “confidence” as the title of her translation.

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