adj 1: related in nature; "connate qualities" [syn: connate]
2: (linguistics) having the same ancestral language; "cognate
languages"
3: related by blood [syn: akin(p), blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous, kin(p)]
n 1: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an
ancestor with another [syn: blood relation, {blood
relative}, sib]
2: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same
word in an ancestral language [syn: cognate word]