- 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.:2.
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.—Fem.:B.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.—Poet., of objects relating to kindred:C.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.—Transf.1.Of animals:2.genus,
Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 13.—Of plants:3.arbores,
Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38.—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;II.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. —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.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.