cognate

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsblood relationblood relativesib

   Broaderrelative
2. 2.

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

   Synonymscognate word

   Broaderword

Other forms of cognate

plural

cognates·

comparative

cognater·

superlative

cognatest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cognate

What does cognate mean?

cognate means "related in nature". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cognate?

cognate has 2 syllables: cog-nate. The stress falls on "cog".

What is another word for cognate?

Close synonyms include connate, akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cognate a common word?

cognate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.