🌌 Distant or separate 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Distant relative

removed

6.5

Separated by one or more generations in a family connection

adjective
/rɪˈmuːvd/

: remoto

My cousin is two generations removed from our shared grandfather.

Britney is your sixth cousin once removed?

Examples

But no, I, my, my, my second cousin once removed got married.
Everyone, everyone else, even maybe generations removed, but everyone else has an immigrant route to them.
Where you going to learn it from six to seven generations removed at this point?
So I, I am removed from the Macmillan's.
June and who was removed from PEN America's board?
When I'm normally not at the other place where I normally am, I'm twice removed from normal, otherwise known as Delaware.
But Joe Gallo's brother, Albert Kid Blast Gallo and a guy, Punchy Ileano, they were left removed from the Colombo family and placed in gin screw.
He discovered he was related to someone who was five cousins removed on his mother's side.
Their family tree shows that she is three generations removed from her distant ancestor.

How Distant

unrelated

10 3.5

removed

6.5

ancestor

419 2.4

relative

645 1.0

Surface Forms

removed positive

Morphology

removed = remove (semi-transparent) = re + move + ed

This is still the regular participial adjective from 'remove', but the kinship use is a specialized extension of the idea of distance.

Etymology

The family meaning of removed comes from the same parts re- 'back' and move 'to move', meaning a relation is 'moved' away by generations. So a 'first cousin once removed' is one generation 'moved' away from you.