cousin
cousin a person belonging to the same extended family, especially (also first cousin) the child of one's uncle or aunt.
There are various phrases to indicate the degree of kinship, as first cousin once removed, a child of one's first cousin, or one's parent's first cousin, and second cousin, a child of one's parent's first cousin.
The word is recorded from Middle English, and comes via Old French from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).
cousin german an old-fashioned term for cousin, deriving (in Middle English) from French cousin germain (ultimately from Latin germanus ‘genuine, of the same parents’).
See also country cousin, kissing cousin.
There are various phrases to indicate the degree of kinship, as first cousin once removed, a child of one's first cousin, or one's parent's first cousin, and second cousin, a child of one's parent's first cousin.
The word is recorded from Middle English, and comes via Old French from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).
cousin german an old-fashioned term for cousin, deriving (in Middle English) from French cousin germain (ultimately from Latin germanus ‘genuine, of the same parents’).
See also country cousin, kissing cousin.
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