Hyphenation of cognate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word cognate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

cog-nate

Definitions of cognate:

1.	One related by blood or origin Especially on sharing an ancestor with another
2.	A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
3.	Related in nature Connate qualities
4.	Having the same ancestral language Cognate languages
5.	Related by blood

Synonyms of cognate:

adj	connate, related, related to
adj	related, related to
adj	akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous, kin, related
noun	blood relation, blood relative, sib, relative, relation
noun	cognate word, word

Last hyphenations of this language

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