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Cognate

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Sense 1: (noun) A word that shares a common origin with another word in a different language.

Example: The English word "mother" and the Spanish word "madre" are cognates.

Sense 2: (adjective) Describing two or more languages that have a common root and share similar vocabulary.

Example: Spanish and Italian are cognate languages as they both originated from Latin.

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