Etymology

agnation

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Today it means: consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation Full definition →

Latin agnatio
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromagnatio
  2. English todayagnation

Learned borrowing from Latin agnatio. Compare French agnation.

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