cognate

Meanings

Adjective

• Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically related on the mother's side.
• Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
• Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.

Noun

• One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
• One who is related to another on the female side.
• One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
• 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin cognātus ("related by blood"), from nātus. connate, and cognatus.