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Meaning of cognate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cognate
      adj 1: related in nature; "connate qualities" [syn: {connate},
             {cognate}]
      2: having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"
      3: related by blood [syn: {akin(p)}, {blood-related}, {cognate},
         {consanguine}, {consanguineous}, {consanguineal}, {kin(p)}]
      n 1: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an
           ancestor with another [syn: {blood relation}, {blood
           relative}, {cognate}, {sib}]
      2: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same
         word in an ancestral language [syn: {cognate}, {cognate
         word}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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