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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.
cognate
/ ˈkɒɡneɪt /
adjective
- akin; related
cognate languages
- related by blood or descended from a common maternal ancestor Compare agnate
- cognate objectgrammar a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
noun
- something that is cognate with something else
Derived Forms
- cogˈnation, noun
- ˈcognateness, noun
- ˈcognately, adverb
Other Words From
- cognate·ness noun
- cog·nat·ic [kog-, nat, -ik], adjective
- non·cognate adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cognate1
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.
“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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