| 单词 | cognate |
| 释义 | cognate —cognateness, n. —cognatic /kog nat"ik/, adj. /kog"nayt/, adj. 1. related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc. 2. Ling. descended from the same language or form: such cognate languages as French and Spanish. 3. allied or similar in nature or quality. n. 4. a person or thing cognate with another. 5. a cognate word: The English word cold is a cognate of German kalt. [1635-45; < L cognatus, equiv. to co- CO- + -gnatus (ptp. of gnasci, nasci to be born)] |
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