Connote vs Cognate - What's the difference?
connote | cognate |
To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
To express without overt reference; to imply.
To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
(linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of a proto-language.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
(legal, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(legal, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
As a verb connote
is .As an adjective cognate is
allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.As a noun cognate is
one of a number of things allied in origin or nature.connote
English
Verb
(connot)- Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
- Poverty connotes hunger.
Synonyms
* (possess an inseparable condition) entail, imply * (express without overt reference) entail, imply * (require as a logical predicate) predicateSee also
* denoteAnagrams
* ----cognate
English
(wikipedia cognate)Adjective
(-)- English mother is cognate to Greek .
- In English, queen is cognate''' to quean, both of which are '''cognate to Russian , Icelandic kona and Irish bean.
- In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European root *sker-, meaning "to cut".
Derived terms
* cognatenessNoun
(en noun)- English mother is a cognate of Greek .
- English queen and (quean), Russian , Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates .