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enate

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e⋅nate

  [ee-neyt]
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–noun
1. a person related on one's mother's side. Compare agnate, cognate.
–adjective
2. Also, e⋅nat⋅ic  [ee-nat-ik] . related on one's mother's side.
Origin:
< L ēnātus, ptp. of ēnāscī to issue forth, be born
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e·nate   (ĭ-nāt', ē'nāt')   
adj.  

  1. Growing outward.

  2. also e·nat·ic (ĭ-nāt'ĭk) Related on the mother's side.

n.  A relative on one's mother's side.

[Latin ēnātus, past participle of ēnāscī, to issue forth : ē-, ex-, ex- + nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
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