Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

cognate

1. cog.nate \'ka:g-.na-t\ aj [L cognatus, fr. co- + gnatus, natus pp. of 
   nasci] to be born; akin to L gignere to beget - mort at KIN 1a: related by 
   blood  1b: related on the mother's side  2a: related by descent from the 
   same ancestral language  of a word or morpheme  2b: related by derivation, 
   borrowing, or descent  of a substantive  2c: related usu. in derivation to 
   the verb of which it is the object  3: of the same or similar nature  - 
   cog.nate.ly av
2. cognate n : one that is cognate with another