Cognatus, pen. prod. Adiect. Quasi vn natus. Plin. Rin: also like: agreeing: almost of the same nature.Cognatum cælum teliuri.Ouid.Caput cognatum Ouid.Cineres cognat. Catul. The sepulchers of auncestours and kinsfolke.Freta cognata.Stat. Mœnia cognata. Ouid.Cognata calci res, gypsum est. Plin. Is like to it.Sanguis cognatus.Virg.Terræ cognatæ. Claud. The landes of out neighbouts.Vires cognatæ. Claud. Vocabula cognata rebus. Horat. Agteeing to.Mentibus nostris aliquid esle cognatum.Cic.Cognati appellantur, quasi vn communitérue nati. Tere. Rinsefolke: of the same bloud.Affines atque cognati alicuius.Cic.Amici & cognati alicuius.Cic.
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.