Cognate

kog′nāt, adj. of the same family, kind, or nature: related or allied to.— n. one related by blood, a kinsman: a person related to another through the mother, as distinguished from an agnate , one related through the father.— n. Cognā′tion . [L. cognatus — co- , together, (g)nasci , (g)nat us , to be born.]