Definition of Cognate word

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

Exact synonyms: Cognate
Generic synonyms: Word
Derivative terms: Cognate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognate Word

cogitations
cogitative
cogitatively
cogitator
cogitators
cogito
cogitos
coglike
coglucosidase
coglycolide
cogman
cogmen
cognacs
cognacy
cognate
cognate word (current term)
cognately
cognateness
cognates
cognation
cognations
cognescenti
cognetics
cognisable
cognisance
cognisances
cognisant
cognise
cognised
cognises

Literary usage of Cognate word

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1894)
"... or a cognate word, where they are used of sojourning in general; but where the subject is "1.3 ..."

2. The Classical Journal (1819)
"7. occurs the cognate word ... But I would ask him then, why does not the " cognate word" OTD~87 ..."

3. The analytical interpretation of the system of divine government of Moses by James Lindsay (1875)
"A study of the templar names of the planets and other cognate word-phrases reveals the scientific methods of the savants of the past. ..."

4. Method of Classical Study: Illustrated by Questions on a Few Selections from by Samuel Harvey Taylor (1874)
"... the actual cognate word is to be considered as understood, and quid is regarded a» the attributive of such cognate word, and of course stands in the ..."

5. The Book of Psalms by Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1906)
"A cognate word is used for ' the house of separation' in which Uzziah lived as a leper (2 ... Or as KV, that hath no help : cp. the cognate word in xxii. ..."

6. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"A cognate word talk " ocean in Gen. xlix. 11 ш а general term for a roan's raiment, leading to the ... A cognate word is used in the Targum (Gen. xxiv. ..."

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