Look up: Cognate

1. cognate
   [adj] - (linguistics) having the same ancestral language 2. [n] - a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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2. Cognate
   Cog'nate adjective [ Latin cognatus ; co- + gnatus , natus , past participle of nasci , anciently gnasci , to be born. See Nation , and confer Connate .] 1. Allied by blood; kindred by ...
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3. Cognate
   Cog'nate noun 1. (Law) One who is related to another on the female side. Wharton. 2. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates .
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4. cognate
   <biochemistry> Refers to two biomolecules that typically interact (for example, a receptor and its ligand). ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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5. cognate
   cognate word noun a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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6. Cognate
   • (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother`s side. • (a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language. • (n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or...
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7. cognate
   (from the article `Uralic languages`) Several kinds of indirect evidence support the above supposition. One approach attempts to reconstruct the natural environment of these groups on the ... ...to illustrate what is meant by a sound law and to indicate the kind of considerations that are taken into account in the application of the ......
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8. Cognate
   In Roman law, a cognate was a person related through male or female antecedents. In English and Scottish law, persons related on the mother's side only.
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9. Cognate
   In linguistics, `cognates` are words that have a common etymological origin. This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus (blood relative). Cognates within the same language are `doublets`. Strictly speaking, loanwords from a related language are usually not meant by the term, e.g. the E...
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