cognate
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For 40 years he has been pursuing his ideal, the last ten as president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The classes under which any lower class successively falls are called Cognate Genera.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
Cognate words in English are smother and small, which come from the same root. gingerly.
From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath
Cognate to it was another point of view which was not originally Jewish, but had probably been taken over by the Jews from Persian thought.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
Sometimes the Cognate Accusative is not of kindred etymology, but merely of kindred meaning; as,— stadium currit, he runs a race; Olympia vincit, he wins an Olympic victory.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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