cognatus

co-gnātus, a, um, adj. [natus, nascor], sprung from the same stock, related by blood, kindred; and subst.: cognātus, i, m., and cognāta, ae, f., a blood-relation, kinsman (on either the father's or the mother's side; a more comprehensive word than agnatus, q. v.; very freq. and class.).

1.

Masc.:

cognatus vester,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 86:

propinqui atque cognati,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

amici cognatique alicujus,

id. Caecin. 5, 15:

cognati atque affines,

id. post Red. ad Quir. 3, 6; Hor. S. 1, 9, 27 et saep.— Gen. plur.:

cognatūm,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 209. —With dat.:

is mihi cognatus fuit,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 23; id. Ad. 5, 8, 24.—

2.

Fem.:

amicae et cognatae,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 16; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 6; 5, 3, 20.—With dat., Plaut. Poen. prol. 97:

negat Phanium esse hanc sibi cognatam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 5.—

B.

Poet., of objects relating to kindred:

rogi,

Prop. 3 (4), 7, 10:

latus,

Ov. M. 9, 412:

corpora,

id. ib. 2, 663;

13, 615: pectora,

id. ib. 6, 498:

moenia,

id. ib. 15, 451:

cineres,

Cat. 68, 98:

urbes,

Verg. A. 3, 502:

sanguis,

id. ib. 12, 29: acies (i. e. between Cœsar and Pompey ), Luc. 1, 4 et saep.—

C.

Transf.

1.

Of animals:

genus,

Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 13.—

2.

Of plants:

arbores,

Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38.—

3.

Of other things; so (acc. to Pythagorean notions) of the soul, kindr. with the Deity, Ov. M. 1, 81 (cf. Cic. Sen. 21, 78; id. N. D. 1, 32, 91; Lucr. 2, 991;

Diog. Laert. 1, 28 al.).—Of Thebes: moenia cognata Baccho,

Stat. Th. 1, 11.—

Of beans, in allusion to the doctrine of transmigration: faba Pythagorae cognata,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 63 al. —

II.

Trop., kindred, related, connected, like, similar:

nihil est tam cognatum mentibus nostris quam numeri ac voces,

Cic. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

(deus mundo) formam et maxime sibi cognatam et decoram dedit,

id. Univ. 6 init.:

gypsum calci,

Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 182:

vocabula,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 280; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 49:

qui (princeps) quod umquam claritudine eminuit, id veluti cognatum censet tuendum,

Vell. 2, 130, 1.