Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

enate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: enate
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

noun

Any maternal female relative.

adj

Related to someone by female connections.

adj

Related on the maternal side of the family.

adj

Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).

adj

Example Sentences

"A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother."
"Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor."

Etymology

From Latin ēnātus.

Inflected Forms

enates (plural) more enate (comparative) most enate (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

agnate cognate

Synonyms

enatic maternal matrikin matrilineal kin matrisib matrilineal sib

Antonyms

agnate

Questions

What does enate mean?: A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
Where does enate come from?: From Latin ēnātus.

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