enate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 5
Definition of enate
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“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.”
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noun
-
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.”
“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.”
- Any maternal female relative.
adj
- Related to someone by female connections.
- Related on the maternal side of the family.
- Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
- Growing out.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin ēnātus.
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