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cognate Definition

• (n) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
• (n) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
• (s) related in nature; "connate qualities"
• (s) having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"
• (s) related by blood

cognate Synonyms

• akin(p)
• blood relation
• blood relative
• blood-related
• cognate
• cognate word
• connate
• consanguine
• consanguineous
• kin(p)
• sib