different between enate vs cognate

English

Etymology

From Latin ?n?tus.

Noun

enate (plural enates)

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

   A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.

   • 2000, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga, page 86,

     Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.

2. Any maternal female relative.

Antonyms

• agnate

Adjective

enate (comparative more enate, superlative most enate)

1. Related to someone by female connections.
2. Related on the maternal side of the family.
3. (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
4. Growing out.

Synonyms

• enatic

Coordinate terms

• agnate (also linguistics)

Translations

Anagrams

• atene, eaten

Latin

Participle

?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?n?tus

English

Alternative forms

• cogn. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cogn?tus (“related by blood”), from n?tus (“born”). Doublet of connate and cognatus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.ne?t/, /?k??.n?t/, /?k??.n?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.ne?t/, /?k??.n?t/, /?k??.n?t/

Adjective

cognate (not comparable)

1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.

   Synonyms: akin, same-blooded; see also Thesaurus:consanguine

2. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.

   Synonyms: allied, kindred, connate; see also Thesaurus:akin

3. (linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.

Usage notes

“Cognate to” is much less common than “cognate with” and not even mentioned in most dictionaries.

Derived terms

• cognateness

Translations

Noun

cognate (plural cognates)

1. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
2. (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
3. (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
4. (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

   Coordinate terms: etymon, derivative/reflex

   Hypernym: paronym

Derived terms

• false cognate
• cognacy
• cognatic
• cognatically

Translations

See also

• derivation
• etymology
• etymon
• root
• false friend
• agnate

Further reading

• cognate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cognate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cognates in the 1879 edition of The American Cyclopædia.

Anagrams

• coagent

Italian

Noun

cognate f

1. plural of cognata

Latin

Adjective

cogn?te

1. vocative masculine singular of cogn?tus