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Definition of Cognate

1. Adjective. Related in nature. "Connate qualities"

2. Noun. One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.

3. Adjective. Having the same ancestral language. "Cognate languages"

4. Noun. A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.

5. Adjective. Related by blood.

Definition of Cognate

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

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

Definition of Cognate

1. Adjective. (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. ¹

2. Noun. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature. ¹

3. Noun. (legal dated) One who is related to another on the female side. ¹

4. Noun. (legal dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages. ¹

5. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cognate

1. one that is related to another [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cognate

1. Refers to two biomolecules that typically interact (for example, a receptor and its ligand). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognate

cogitation cogitations cogitative cogitatively cogitator cogitators cogito cogitos coglike coglucosidase

coglycolide cogman cogmen cognacs cognacy cognate (current term) cognate word cognately cognateness cognates

cognation cognations cognescenti cognetics cognisable cognisance cognisances cognisant cognise cognised

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