co-gnātus, a, um, adj. [natus, nascor],
I 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. 926; id. Ad. 947.—
2 Fem. : amicae et cognatae, Ter. Hec. 592; id. Phorm. 353; 803.—With dat., Plaut. Poen. prol. 97: negat Phanium esse hanc sibi cognatam, Ter. Phorm. 352.—
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 Caesar 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.