Definitions for cognates

cognates cog·nate

Spelling: [kog-neyt]
IPA: /ˈkɒg neɪt/

Cognates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 453 anagrams from letters in cognates (acegnost).

Definitions for cognates

noun

  1. a person or thing cognate with another.
  2. a cognate word:

adjective

  1. related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.
  2. Linguistics. descended from the same language or form:
  3. allied or similar in nature or quality.

Origin of cognates

1635-45; Latin cognātus, equivalent to co- co- + -gnātus (past participle of gnāscī, nāscī to be born)

Examples for cognates

Richier, has generally been absorbed by the cognate Richard.

However, the Old English "hund" later became "hound" but eventually was replaced by "dog," not a cognate.

The bank of a river or lake was called Over, cognate with Ger.

With bird nicknames may be mentioned Callow, unfledged, cognate with Lat.

A glade or valley in the wood was called a Dean, Dene, Denne, cognate with den.

The young men who figure at embassies and missions are all "cognate numbers."

The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word.

Stout, valiant, now used euphemistically for fat, is cognate with Ger.

That the Greek mind was apt in doing this is cognate to their idealizing turn in art.

The first syllable is cognate with mare and the second means servant.

Word Value for cognates
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

Similar words for cognates
Word of the day