Cognate

['kɒgneɪt] or ['kɑɡnet]

Definition

(noun.) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.

(adj.) having the same ancestral language; 'cognate languages' .

Editor: Maynard--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

(a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

(n.) One who is related to another on the female side.

(n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

Typed by Leigh

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Allied, akin, kin, related, kindred, similar, analogous, alike, of a piece.

Editor: Nicolas

Definition

adj. of the same family kind or nature: related or allied to.—n. one related by blood a kinsman: a person related to another through the mother as distinguished from an agnate one related through the father.—n. Cognā′tion.

Checker: Reginald