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 regularreflex 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.
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