consanguineal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "In the family law of very early society descent is in the female line, the control of the children belongs to the mother and her consanguineal kindred."
- "Social structure and organization within the Nuristani communities of Waigal . . . is based primarily on relations of consanguineal or fictive kinship."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥der. Proto-Italic *sangwens Latin sanguis Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin cōnsanguineus English -al English consanguineal From Latin cōnsanguineus + English -al.