cognado
Spanish, noun/koɡˈnado/
cognado is spelled C-O-G-N-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish, the 208,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cognado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cognate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cognado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cognate (derived from the same roots)
noun
- 1
masculinecognate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dice de una palabra o lengua que está relacionada o emparentada con otra por su origen etimológico o que proviene de un tronco común. 2. Que está emparentado con otro por cognación (parentesco de consaguinidad por la línea femenina con otros descendientes de un tronco común). 3. Que tiene cualquier tipo de parentesco.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cognado
- cognada feminine
- cognados masculine plural
- cognadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cognado?
- /koɡˈnado/
- [koɣ̞ˈna.ð̞o]
- [koɣ̞ˈnað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cognado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cognado in Spanish?
cognado appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).