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English

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magn?t?s, plural of magn?s, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?ne?t/, /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnet (/?mægn?t/)

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
   • 2014, Jennifer Hayward, The Magnate's Manifesto, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 2:

     With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run.

   • 2015, Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking, Hachette UK (?ISBN)

     Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.

2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
   • 1839 November 2, "Brindley in Manchester", New Moral World, page 857.

Translations

Further reading

• magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• business magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Magenta, gateman, magenta, nametag

Italian

Etymology

From Latin magn?s.

Noun

magnate m (plural magnati)

1. magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Anagrams

• magenta

Further reading

• magnate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

magn?te

1. vocative singular of magn?tus

Middle English

Etymology

From Late Latin. Attested only in the plural in Middle English.

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

1. a high official
   • c. 1438, John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes:

     reulers of the toun, Callid magnates

References

• “magn?t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??nate/, [ma???na.t?e]

Noun

magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnata, feminine plural magnatas)

1. magnate, tycoon

Further reading

• “magnate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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