The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcognātus“related by blood”
- English todaycognate
Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Words from the same roots
Latincognātus all →
cognatus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.