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Tillières, _Tegulense castrum_, bears a name cognate with the Kerameikos of Athens and with the Tuilleries of Paris.

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  1. adjective Related by blood; having a common ancestor.
  2. adjective 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 *nŏ̄-men-.
  3. adjective Related or analogous in nature, character, or function.

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  • It's almost a kind of cognate/hyponymous object construction (The broken pipe sprayed a fine spray of oil), except that the object isn't optional, unlike the usual cognate/hyponymous object constructions (see (2)).Hmmmm!
  • Not dreaming in the strictly biological sense but dreaming as in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and its literary cognate, Apuleius's The Golden Ass ; the dream-theater Tolkien explicates in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” where he writes that If you are present at a Faerian drama you yourself are, or think that you are, bodily inside its Secondary World. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • See how I go on and on to you, I who, whenever now and then pulled, by the head and hair, into letter-writing, get sorrowfully on for a line or two, as the cognate creature urged on by stick and string, and then come down 'flop' upon the sweet haven of page one, line last, as serene as the sleep of the virtuous! —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • Consequently, the rate of translation of each codon will be mainly determined by two factors: the collision of each ternary complex with the A-site, which strongly depends on the cellular concentration of the cognate isoaccepting tRNA, and the specificity of the codon-anticodon interactions —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • So that, when it comes time to fix the direst implosions efficiently-caused by a de facto, misgoverning plutocracy, the best most Americans can do is to complain (quite a feat for passive publicans, maybe): But never can they cognate or demand fair-minded, capitalist —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
 

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  1. Latin cognātus : co-, co- + gnātus, born, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese cognado = Italian cognato, from Latin cognatus, from co-, together, + gnatus, old form of natus, born, past participle of *gnasci, nasci, be born: see natal, native. Cf. agnate, adnate.
 

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