ALL meanings of cognate
cog·nate
C c - adjective cognate Cognate things are related to each other. 3
- adjective cognate akin; related 3
- adjective cognate related by blood or descended from a common maternal ancestor 3
- noun cognate something that is cognate with something else 3
- adjective cognate related by family; having the same ancestor 3
- adjective cognate having the same nature or quality 3
- adjective cognate related through the same source; derived from a common original form 3
- noun cognate a person related to another through common ancestry 3
- noun cognate a relative on the mother's side 3
- noun cognate a cognate word, language, or thing 3
- noun cognate (of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word or root (e.g., English is, German ist, Latin est, from Indo-European esti ). 1
- adjective cognate related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc. 1
- adjective cognate Linguistics. descended from the same language or form: such cognate languages as French and Spanish. 1
- adjective cognate allied or similar in nature or quality. 1
- noun cognate a person or thing cognate with another. 1
- noun cognate a cognate word: The English word cold is a cognate of German kalt. 1
- noun cognate linguistics: related word 1
- adjective cognate linguistics: related 1
- adjective cognate general: related, alike 1
- adjective cognate (linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of a proto-language. 0
- noun cognate One of a number of things allied in origin or nature. 0
- noun cognate (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side. 0
- noun cognate (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages. 0
- noun cognate 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. 0
- adjective cognate Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side. 0
- adjective cognate Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred. 0