Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Related by blood; having a common ancestor.
- adj. 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-.
- adj. Related or analogous in nature, character, or function.
- n. One related by blood or origin with another, especially a person sharing an ancestor with another.
- n. A word related to one in another language.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Allied by blood; connected or related by birth; specifically, of the same parentage, near or remote, as another. See cognation, 1.
- Related in origin; traceable to the same source; proceeding from the same stock or root; of the same family, in a general sense: as, cognate languages or dialects; words cognate in origin.
- Allied in nature, quality, or form; having affinity of any kind: as, cognate sounds.
- Any similar notions.
- n. One connected with another by ties of kindred; specifically, in the plural, all those whose descent can be traced from one pair. In its technical use in Roman law it implied a lawful marriage as the source. See agnate and cognation, 1.
- n. Anything related to another by origin or derivation, as a language or a word: as, the Latin and Greek languages are cognates.
Wiktionary
- adj. linguistics Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.
- n. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- n. law, dated One who is related to another on the female side.
- n. law, dated One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- n. A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
- adj. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
- n. (Law) One who is related to another on the female side.
- n. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the same ancestral language
- adj. related in nature
- n. a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
- adj. related by blood
- n. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
Etymologies
- From Latin cognātus ("related by blood"), from nātus ("born"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin cognātus : co-, co- + gnātus, born, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To use the word cognate implies a family-tree model, which is still the most commonly accepted image that we have for the relations of the Indo-European languages: It ain’t perfect, but it runs.”
“We welcome work from historians or those in cognate disciplines, including gender studies, Native American studies, religious studies, or cultural studies.”
“The very word "islam" comes from a word cognate to shalom, which means peace in Hebrew [and which sounds less threatening to agnostics and atheists than the Arabic-to-English translation].”
“Tillières, _Tegulense castrum_, bears a name cognate with the Kerameikos of Athens and with the Tuilleries of Paris.”
“The very word "islam" comes from a word cognate to shalom, which means peace in Hebrew.”
“The English lieutenant is a direct cognate from the French.”
“ANGLE (from the Lat. _angulus_, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, _angus_, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“I've been called so many ugly and untrue things by those on the right that simply being classified as a recognized and non-pejorative cognate of "left-leaning" will be refreshing.”
“Basically the diferent groups decided on the same word, a compound of 'fire' and 'water', which were both terms cognate between the different languages.”
“It seems rather to be an altered form of a Scandinavian personal name cognate with Odo.”
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