cognate
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- noun
- /ˈkɑɡneɪt/
- Specialized
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cognado
- In Spanish, the word 'información' is a cognate of the English word 'information', showing their shared origins.
- cognates versus noncognates
- Spanish cognates
- English cognates
And that word is plastic and, and it's a direct, you know, cognate to the German plastiche here.
- And that word is plastic and, and it's a direct, you know, cognate to the German plastiche here.
- So organic and its cognates, in other words, became more costly by design.
- An inecdote literally means not stories as it would now, anecdotes, the false cognate.
Examples
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Many of the more than 20,000 such cognates are academic vocabulary words derived from Latin and Greek.
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There are a number of potential benefits to teaching cognates to Spanish-speaking ELL students with language impairment.
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The list of the cognates for that particular book will then appear.
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And the English word there is actually just a cognate of lamentaciones in Latin.
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The results demonstrate that there are many cognates in picture books.
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Other research findings further explicated the use of cognates in reading comprehension.
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Mary knows that it is important for Latino ELs to learn how to recognize cognates in text for better comprehension.
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The presence of three cognates, as determined by orthographic overlap, scaffolds meaning for the English reader.
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The words 'brother' and cognate 'frater' are related, both deriving from the same ancient root.
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Learning about cognates can help students expand their vocabulary by connecting words from different languages.
Synonyms
A word in another language that comes from the same older word
Compounds
How Cognate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cognate (for words) comes from the Latin cognatus, formed from con- 'with' and gnatus 'born', so you can think of two words as 'born' from the same parent language—like English 'mother' and German 'Mutter'—which is why cognates are words that share the same origin.