agnate

from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡneɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æɡneɪt

agnate (plural agnates)

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

   A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.

   • 2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203:

     Men accuse agnates of their own generation of bewitching them.

2. Any paternal male relative.
3. (linguistics) A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.

• enate

agnate (comparative more agnate, superlative most agnate)

1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
2. allied; akin
   • 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Florentine, English Visitor, and Landor”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:

     Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.

3. (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.
   • 2013, Thomas Bloor, Meriel Bloor, The Functional Analysis of English:

     [...] we can talk about a swim, a drink, a look, even though swim, drink and look can also show up as verbs in agnate clauses.

• agnatic, patrilineal

• agnatic
• agnation

• Gaetan, Teagan, negata

agnāte

1. vocative singular of agnātus