cogn.

Adjective

cognate (not comparable)

1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.

   Synonyms:

   akin, same-blooded, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, natural

2. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
   • This explanation provoked further great hilarity among the members of the committee. And the frankness was admired by many with which Louit, on his return, confessed to having found, in the course of his excursion, three barns in all, of which two contained empty bottles and the third the skeleton...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   allied, kindred, connate, akin

3. Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.

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