existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn: a connate sense of right and wrong.
2.
associated in birth or origin.
3.
allied or agreeing in nature; cognate.
4.
Anatomy. firmly united; fused.
5.
Botany. congenitally joined, as leaves.
6.
Geology. trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited: connate water.
Origin: 1635–45; < LL connātus (ptp. of connāscī to be born at the same time with), equiv. to L con-con-+ nā- (short s. of nāscī) + -tus ptp. suffix (see nascent)
Existing at birth or from the beginning; inborn or inherent.
Originating at the same time; related.
Being in close accord or sympathy; congenial: "In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages"(Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Biology Joined or united with a structure of the same kind, as sepals or petals.
Geology Trapped in sediment or rock at the time of deposition: connate water.
[Late Latin connātus, past participle of connāscī, to be born with : Latin com-, com- + Latin nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] con'nate'ly adv., con'nate'ness n.