/ Thesaurus / C Synonyms of cognate word Find synonyms for: Noun1. cognate, cognate word, wordusage: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral languageWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: quandary Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language