Etymology

connate

C3O1N1N1A1T1E1

Today it means: Of the same or a similar nature; proceeding from the same stock or root. Full definition →

Latin connātus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromconnātus
  2. English todayconnate

First attested in 1641; borrowed from Latin connātus, perfect active participle of connāscor (“to be born together (with)”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- + nāscor. Doublet of cognate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.