- cognate
[cognate 词源字典]
- cognate: see native
[cognate etymology, cognate origin, 英语词源] - cognate (adj.)
- 1640s, from Latin cognatus "of common descent," from com- "together" (see co-) + gnatus, past participle of gnasci, older form of nasci "to be born" (see genus). Words that are cognates are cousins, not siblings. As a noun, from 1754.