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Meanings of cognate in English

Catalan
consanguini
Spanish
cognado

One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.

consanguini
Portuguese
cognato

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

cognato
Russian
когнаты
Portuguese
cognato
Catalan
cognat
Spanish
cognado

Word that has a common etymological origin.

когнаты
Spanish
descendencia cognática

One who is related to another on the female side.

descendencia cognática
Synonyms
Examples for "cognates"
Examples for "cognates"
1
Let the pupil verify this by experiment, and then practice on these cognates.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
2
The pupil should first verify this by experiment, and then practice on these cognates.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
3
There were no cognates at all-vocabulary or grammar-with High Kettai.
The Scar
4
But persons related only by blood through females are not agnates, but merely cognates.
The Institutes of Justinian
5
In many instances they contain words derived, not from a single original, but from cognates.
The Century Vocabulary Builder
Usage of cognate in English
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
6
The instincts of men are always right in this and all cognate matters.
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
7
Religion, then, and cognate enthusiasms were the first breeders of the Free Press.
The Free Press
8
The HK can control both phosphorylation and subsequent dephosphorylation of its cognate RR.
Pubmed
9
This repression could be relieved by ectopic expression of a cognate CI regulator.
Pubmed
10
Immunoglobulin isotype switching is also observed, indicating functional T-B cognate interactions.
Pubmed
11
The heat shock cognate protein, hsc70, has been implicated in regulating coat disassembly.
Pubmed
12
The cognate crab and fruit fly receptors differ in their responses to hormone.
Pubmed
13
SM proteins regulate membrane fusion through interactions with their cognate Sxs.
Pubmed
14
Sounds of gurgle and strangulation, with other cognate noises, was all Upstill's response.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
15
The new service was welcomed by cognate health care professionals.
Pubmed
16
A cognate form (Parechidna Bruyni) has lately been found in New Guinea.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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Translations for cognate
Portuguese
cognato
Cognate through the time
Cognate across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common