cognate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   related in origin, nature, or character

   The proposed reform was intended to address corruption and cognate abuses of power.

2. 2
   noun

   a word that shares a common ancestral form with another word

   The English word night is a cognate of German Nacht.

3. 3
   adj

   of words or languages, descended from the same ancestral language or form

   French and Spanish are cognate languages descended from Latin.

Common collocations

• cognate word Adjective + noun

Borrowed from Latin cognatus, 'related by blood,' formed from con-, 'together,' and natus, 'born,' the past participle of nasci, 'to be born.' The linguistic sense compares words as members of the same historical family.

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