Meanings
alternative consanguinous
- not comparableRelated by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)1 more example
2002, B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary consanguineous marriage," Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225, Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.
Synonyms: consanguine, consanguineal, same-blooded · Antonyms: affinal
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveRelated by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiverelated by blood
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Adapted borrowing of Latin cōnsanguineus + -ous, from con- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from sanguis (“blood”). By surface analysis, con- + sanguineous. Doublet of consanguine.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan consanguini, carnal
- consanguinirelated by birth
- carnalrelated by birth
Chinese Mandarin 同宗的
- 同宗的 (tóngzōng de)related by birth
Czech pokrevní
- pokrevnírelated by birth
Danish blodsbeslægtet
- blodsbeslægtetrelated by birth
Dutch bloedverwant, consanguin
- bloedverwantrelated by birth
- consanguinrelated by birth
Finnish verisukulainen
- verisukulainenrelated by birth
French consanguin
- consanguinrelated by birth
German blutsverwandt, konsanguin
- blutsverwandtrelated by birth
- konsanguinrelated by birth
- leiblichrelated by birth
Hungarian édes-, vér szerinti
- édes-related by birth
- vér szerintirelated by birth
Italian consanguineo
- consanguineorelated by birth
Māori kōpūtahi
- kōpūtahirelated by birth
Norwegian Bokmål kjødelig
- kjødeligrelated by birth
Polish pokrewny, spokrewniony
- pokrewnyrelated by birth
- spokrewnionyrelated by birth
Portuguese carnal, consanguíneo
- carnalrelated by birth
- consanguíneorelated by birth
Romanian consangvin
- consangvinrelated by birth
Russian ро́дственный, единокро́вный
- ро́дственный (ródstvennyj)related by birth
- единокро́вный (jedinokróvnyj)related by birth
Spanish carnal, consanguíneo
- carnalrelated by birth
- consanguíneorelated by birth
Turkish akraba
- akrabarelated by birth
Ukrainian роди́нний, однокро́вний
- роди́нний (rodýnnyj)related by birth
- однокро́вний (odnokróvnyj)related by birth
- єдинокро́вний (jedynokróvnyj)related by birth
Vietnamese cận huyết
- cận huyếtrelated by birth
Welsh cydwaed, cytras
- cydwaedrelated by birth
- cytrasrelated by birth
Cite this entry
consanguineous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consanguineous
“consanguineous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consanguineous. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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