Enate Definition

ĭ-nāt, ēnāt

adjective

Growing outward.

American Heritage

Related on the mother's side.

American Heritage

(linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).

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noun

A relative on one's mother's side.

American Heritage

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

A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother's mother's mother.

Wiktionary

Any maternal female relative.

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Other Word Forms of Enate

Singular:

enate

Plural:

enates

Latin ēnātus past participle of ēnāscī to issue forth ē-, ex- ex- nāscī to be born genə- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin ēnātus.

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