Dictionary

enate en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin ēnātus.

Meanings

1. Related to someone by female connections.
2. Related on the maternal side of the family.
3. Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
4. Growing out.

Forms

Coordinates

agnate · cognate

Synonyms

enatic

Translations (2)

fi äidinpuoleinen (related on the maternal side) · fi naislinjainen (related by female connections)

enate en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin ēnātus.

Meanings

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
   • 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. 2000, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga, page 86:
   • A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
2. Any maternal female relative.

Forms

Antonyms

agnate