Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Related by blood; having a common ancestor.
- 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-.
- adjective Related or analogous in nature, character, or function.
- noun One related by blood or origin with another, especially a person sharing an ancestor with another.
- noun A word related to one in another language.
- noun A sequence of university courses taken as an adjunct to a graduate degree program.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun 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. - noun Anything related to another by origin or derivation, as a language or a word: as, the Latin and Greek languages are cognates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
- adjective Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
- noun (Law) One who is related to another on the female side.
- noun One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Either
descended from the sameattested sourcelexeme ofancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regularreflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form ofproto-language . - noun One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- noun law, dated One who is related to another on the female side.
- noun law, dated One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- noun A word either
descended from the same base word of the sameancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be aregular reflex of the same reconstructedroot ofproto-language as the given word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the same ancestral language
- adjective related in nature
- noun a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
- adjective related by blood
- noun one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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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.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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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.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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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.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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We welcome work from historians or those in cognate disciplines, including gender studies, Native American studies, religious studies, or cultural studies.
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We welcome work from historians or those in cognate disciplines, including gender studies, Native American studies, religious studies, or cultural studies.
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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].
Rob Kirkpatrick: Feisal Abdul Rauf's New York Times Op-Ed [With Annotations From an Agnostic] 2010
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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].
Rob Kirkpatrick: Feisal Abdul Rauf's New York Times Op-Ed [With Annotations From an Agnostic] 2010
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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].
Rob Kirkpatrick: Feisal Abdul Rauf's New York Times Op-Ed [With Annotations From an Agnostic] 2010
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Tillières, _Tegulense castrum_, bears a name cognate with the Kerameikos of Athens and with the Tuilleries of Paris.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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