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Cognate word

noun
1.
A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.  Synonym: cognate.





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"Cognate word" Quotes from Famous Books



... mortal and divine are in antithesis: comp. Il Pens. 91, 92, "The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook." The lines embody a compliment to the Lady Alice: read in this connection lines 555 and 564. 'Ravishment,' rapture (a cognate word) or ecstasy: comp. Il Pens. 40, "Thy rapt soul sitting in ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton


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