English

Noun

cognatus ‎(plural cognati)

1. (law) A person connected through cognation.

Latin

Etymology

From con- ‎(“together”) +‎ (g)nātus ‎(“born”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koŋˈnaː.tus/

Adjective/Noun

cognātus m ‎(feminine cognāta, neuter cognātum); first/second declension

1. related by blood, kindred
   • 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:)

2. smb.'s brother or sister, smb.'s sibling
3. (figuratively) related, connected, like, similar
4. (substantive) a blood relation, blood relative, kinsman

Inflection

First/second declension.

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cognatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.