Cognate (disambiguation)
 |
Look up cognate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Cognate (Latin: cognatus, "related by birth") may mean:
- cognate (kinship), person who shares a common ancestor
- cognates, words that have a common etymological origin
- false cognates, words that appear to be cognates, but are not
- cognate object, a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb
- cognate linkage, a kinematic linkage that generates the same coupler curve as another linkage of a different geometry
- cognate receptor and cognate ligand, in biochemistry, a cell surface receptor molecule and the molecule it binds
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.