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Meanings of cognate word in English

Portuguese
cognato

A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.

cognato
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Examples for "cognate"
Examples for "cognate"
1
That argument produces all this misery; that and others cognate to it.
The Small House at Allington
2
The Stoics define the soul as a cognate spirit, sensible to exhalations.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
3
There was nothing formal, nothing ordained about such clusterings of cognate mentalities.
The Naked God
4
Cloned CTL can be induced to undergo apoptosis with cognate peptide epitopes.
Pubmed
5
Sea-power is a term used to indicate two distinct, though cognate things.
Sea-Power and Other Studies
Usage of cognate word in English
1
There are cognate words in most of the languages of Europe and many of those of India, dead and alive.
The Irish Times
Translations for cognate word
Portuguese
cognato