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• n  one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
• n  a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
• s  related in nature
• s  having the same ancestral language
  cognate languages
• s  related by blood

• Plato made a cognate point by banishing the artists from his ideal republic altogether, supposing that the human imagination is too malleable to withstand without corruption their .
• His soul and ours may not be cognate, but he makes us feel again what it is to have one.
• A pledge was integral to the act of play, as was danger (cognate words are peril and plight).

• blood relation
• blood relative
• sib
• cognate word
• connate
• akin
• blood-related
• consanguine
• consanguineous
• consanguineal
• kin

News & Articles

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Quotes

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• Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Hindu
  Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote, "translating poetry, even when confined to a cognate language with formal and idiomatic affinities with the original composition, is an exacting task: but this task is obviously far more formidable when the languages involved...