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Cognate

adjective
1.
Related in nature.  Synonym: connate.
2.
Having the same ancestral language.
3.
Related by blood.  Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin.
noun
1.
One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.  Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib.
2.
A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.  Synonym: cognate word.



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... sensibly assisted Friedrich's affairs. Daun was by no means of braggart turn; but the recognition of his matchless achievement by the gazetteer public, whether in exultation or in lamentation, was loud and universal; and the joy, in Vienna and the cognate quarters, knew no bounds for the time being. Thus, among other tokens, the Holiness of our Lord the Pope, blessing Heaven for such success against the Heretic, was pleased to send him "a Consecrated Hat and Sword,"—such ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.--1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle

... Constitution of the United States as a (p. 060) vigorous, efficient, and practical system of government, to prove its soundness, safety, and efficacy, and to defend it from the undermining assaults of those who distrusted it and would have reduced it to imbecility. Supplementary and cognate to this was the further task of giving the young nation and the new system a chance to get fairly started in life before being subjected to the strain of war and European entanglements. To this end it was necessary to hold in check the Jeffersonian or French party, who ...
— John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen Series • John. T. Morse

... of cognate character, presents itself. In the absence of a naturalization convention, some few States hold self-expatriation without the previous consent of the sovereign to be punishable, or to entail consequences indistinguishable from banishment. Turkey, for instance, ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf

... wind symbol with many peoples. It has been so esteemed among several tribes of American Indians, and also by peoples of the Old World. As nii or ni signifies "nose, beak, point" in Maya and several cognate dialects, is it not possible that in this is to be found an explanation of the second Zapotec name? In this case, however, we must assume that the term is borrowed, as in this language xi or xie is the term for "nose." I notice, however, that the name for ...
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— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds


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