cognate

Example Sentences

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There's no close cognate to Liz Truss in American politics, and there's definitely nothing similar to the bizarre intra-party process that has landed her in Downing Street.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2022

“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

In the afterword to “Trust,” Lahiri explains why she chose not to use the English cognate “confidence” as the title of her translation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

This is what I most want from TV: something literary, which I wish we had a good TV cognate for so I don’t sound like such a tool using it here!

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2020

A sound without cognate and so without description.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy