cognate
UK/ˈkɒɡn(e)ɪt//ˈkɑɡn(e)ɪt/
cognate adjective: allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Adjective
cognate (not comparable)
- Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
- Synonyms:
- akin, same-blooded, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, natural
- 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
- Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Noun
cognate (plural cognates)
- One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- One who is related to another on the female side.
- One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
cognate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cognate in Hindi
- descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language
- सजातीय sajātīya
- word derived from the same roots as a given word
- सजातीय sajātīya
cognate in Tamil
- இணைச்சொற்கள்
cognate in Marathi
- kindred by birth
- सजातीय sajātīy
cognate in Urdu
- ہم اصل, ہم جنس, ہم ریشہ
More languagesFewer languages
- cognate in Bengali
- সমগোত্রজ śômogotroj
- cognate in Malayalam
- ഒരേഗോത്രത്തിൽപെട്ട, രക്തബന്ധമുള്ള, ഒരേ ഗോത്രത്തിൽപ്പെട്ട, സജാതീയമായ
- cognate in Kannada
- ಮಾತೃಬಂಧು, ರಕ್ತಸಂಬಂಧಿ, ಸಜಾತೀಯ, ಜ್ಞಾತಿ
- cognate in Malay
- kognat, serumpun, kata serumpun
- cognate in Indonesian
- kognat, kata kerabat, kata seasal
- cognate in Vietnamese
- cùng gốc, đồng nguyên, từ cùng gốc
Examples of cognate in a sentence
- Cognate to Gottscheerish boßər, bàsser. Ultimately cognate to standard High German Wasser.
- A set of words can be formal cognates only if they can be derived from a common ancestor by regular sound laws.
- But when BANZSL and ASL were compared, 44% cognate and 31% identical signs have been observed.
Synonyms of cognate
Forms of cognate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative abbreviation | cogn. |
| Noun | |
| plural | cognates |
Origin of cognate
Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Words formed from cognate
Phrases with cognate
Questions about cognate
- What does cognate mean?
- Cognate means allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
- What is cognate in Hindi?
- Cognate in Hindi is सजातीय (sajātīya). See Cognate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cognate?
- Cognate can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cognate?
- Cognate is pronounced /ˈkɒɡn(e)ɪt/ (UK).
Words near cognate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cognate (page history and authors); cognate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cognate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cognate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cognate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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