Cognate Definition

kŏgnāt
cognates
adjective
Related by family; having the same ancestor.
Webster's New World
Having the same nature or quality.
Webster's New World
Related in origin, as certain words in genetically related languages descended from the same ancestral root; for example, English name and Latin nōmen from Indo-European *nō̆-men-.
American Heritage
Related through the same source; derived from a common original form.
English “apple” and German “apfel” are cognate words; French and Spanish are cognate languages.
Webster's New World
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
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noun
A person related to another through common ancestry.
Webster's New World
A relative on the mother's side.
Webster's New World
A cognate word, language, or thing.
Webster's New World
A sequence of university courses taken as an adjunct to a graduate degree program.
Earned an MA in linguistics with a cognate in computer science.
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Other Word Forms of Cognate

Noun

Singular:
cognate
Plural:
cognates

Origin of Cognate

  • Latin cognātus co- co- gnātus born past participle of nāscī to be born genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from nātus (“born”).

    From Wiktionary

Cognate Sentence Examples

  • Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.

  • Several fraternities - old gilds or new companies, with their respective cognate or heterogeneous branches of industry and trade - were fused into one body.

  • But it is a cognate Law.

  • Other authorities suggest that it is going much too far to deny the existence of religion altogether, and instance as proof of the divinity of the supra-normal anthropomorphic beings of the Baiame class, the fact that the Yuin and cognate tribes dance around the image of Daramulun (their equivalent of Baiame) and the medicine men " invocate his name."

  • The fourth region comprised all the Samnites (except the Hirpini), together with the Sabines and the cognate tribes of the Frentani, Marrucini, Marsi, Peligni, Vestini and Aequiculi.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOG

Words Ending With

ETEATE

Unscrambles

cognate

Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With TE

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With E