Similarity vs Cognate - What's the difference?
similarity | cognate |
Closeness of appearance to something else.
(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
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 nouns the difference between similarity and cognate
is that similarity is closeness of appearance to something else while cognate is one of a number of things allied in origin or nature.As an adjective cognate is
allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.similarity
English
Noun
(similarities)- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. — Sir W. Hamilton.
Synonyms
* resemblanceSee also
* similitude * likeness * alikenesscognate
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 .