Overview of noun cognate

The noun cognate has 2 senses

• blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib -- (one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another)


• cognate, cognate word -- (a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language)

Overview of adj cognate

The adj cognate has 3 senses

• connate, cognate -- (related in nature; "connate qualities")


• cognate -- (having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages")


• akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin -- (related by blood)