agnate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agnate (plural agnates)
- A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
- A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
- 2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203:
- Men accuse agnates of their own generation of bewitching them.
- Any paternal male relative.
- (linguistics) A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.
Antonyms
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[edit]relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family
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Adjective
[edit]agnate (comparative more agnate, superlative most agnate)
- Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
- allied; akin
- 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Florentine, English Visitor, and Landor”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:
- Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.
- (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.
- 2013, Thomas Bloor, Meriel Bloor, The Functional Analysis of English:
- [...] we can talk about a swim, a drink, a look, even though swim, drink and look can also show up as verbs in agnate clauses.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]agnāte
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