cognatus
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cognatus (“kinsman”). Doublet of cognate and connate.
Noun
cognatus (plural cognati)
- (law) A person connected through cognation.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cognatus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“together”) + (g)nātus (“born”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koɡˈnaː.tus/, [kɔŋˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koɲˈɲa.tus/, [koɲˈɲäːt̪us]
Adjective
cognātus (feminine cognāta, neuter cognātum); first/second-declension adjective
- related by blood, kindred
- Synonym: cōnsanguineus
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:15
- nam sicut beato Iob insultabant reges ita isti parentes et cognati eius et inridebant vitam eius dicentes (For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:)
- brother or sister; sibling
- (figuratively) related, connected, like, similar
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cognātus | cognāta | cognātum | cognātī | cognātae | cognāta | |
Genitive | cognātī | cognātae | cognātī | cognātōrum | cognātārum | cognātōrum | |
Dative | cognātō | cognātō | cognātīs | ||||
Accusative | cognātum | cognātam | cognātum | cognātōs | cognātās | cognāta | |
Ablative | cognātō | cognātā | cognātō | cognātīs | |||
Vocative | cognāte | cognāta | cognātum | cognātī | cognātae | cognāta |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: cumnat
- Istro-Romanian: cumnåt
- Megleno-Romanian: cumnat
- Romanian: cumnat
- Dalmatian:
- comnut
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cognato
- Sicilian: cugnatu
- North Italian:
- Emilian: cugnà, cugnè, cugnèt
- Friulian: cugnât
- Ligurian: cugnòu, cugnàu, cugnâ
- Lombard: cugnat
- Piedmontese: cugnà
- Romagnol: cugnèt
- Venetian: cugnà, cugnado, cognà, cognado
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: cugnâ (Valdôtain)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: cunyat
- Occitan: cunhat, conhat
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: cunyau, cunyato (central Pyrenean)
- Asturian: cuñáu
- Galician: cuñado
- Portuguese: cunhado
- Spanish: cuñado
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: connadu, connatu, connau
- Ancient borrowings:
- →? Albanian: kunat
- Learned borrowings:
- → Catalan: cognat
- → English: cognate
- → Esperanto: kognato
- → French: cognat
- → Galician: cognado
- → Greek: κουνιάδος (kouniádos)
- → Portuguese: cognato
- → Romanian: cognat
- → Spanish: cognado
Noun
cognātus m (genitive cognātī, feminine cognāta); second declension
- a blood relation, blood relative, kinsman
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
Nominative | cognātus | cognāta | cognātī | cognātae | |
Genitive | cognātī | cognātae | cognātōrum | cognātārum | |
Dative | cognātō | cognātīs | cognātīs | ||
Accusative | cognātum | cognātam | cognātōs | cognātās | |
Ablative | cognātō | cognātā | cognātīs | cognātīs | |
Vocative | cognāte | cognāta | cognātī | cognātae |
References
- “cognatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cognatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cognatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cognatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette