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cousin

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English cosin, cosine, cosyn (“blood relative, kinsman or kinswoman; any relative; nephew or niece; first cousin; grandson or granddaughter; descendant; godchild or godparent, or a relative of a godchild or godparent; (figurative) closely related or similar thing”) [and other forms], and then:

• from Anglo-Norman cosen, cosin [and other forms], Middle French cosin, and Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousin); and
• from Anglo-Norman cosine, Middle French cosine, and Old French cosine (“collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousine),

from Latin cōnsōbrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsōbīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌzn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌz(ə)n/, /ˈkʌzɪn/
• (US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰɐz.ɹ̩n]
• Homophone: cozen (weak vowel merger)
• Rhymes: -ʌzən
• Hyphenation: cou‧sin

Noun

cousin (plural cousins)

2. Chiefly with a qualifying word: any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
   1. (specifically) Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
   2. (specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.
3. (chiefly in the plural) A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
4. Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.
5. Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (British) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
6. (figurative, also attributive) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.
7. (obsolete)
   1. (cant) A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
   2. (cant) A person who is swindled; a dupe.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe
   3. (rare) A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.

Usage notes

Regarding sense 1:

• People who have common grandparents but different parents are first cousins. People who have common great-grandparents but no common grandparents and different parents are second cousins, and so on. In other words, one of a person’s first cousin’s parents is one of that person’s parents’ siblings, and one of a person’s second cousin’s grandparents is one of that person’s grandparents’ siblings. For example, if Phil’s father and Marie’s mother are siblings, Phil and Marie are first cousins; and if Lee’s grandfather and Sarah’s grandmother are siblings, Lee and Sarah are second cousins.
• The child of a person’s first cousin or the first cousin of a person’s parent is that person’s first cousin once removed, the grandchild of a person’s first cousin or the first cousin of a person’s grandparent is that person’s first cousin twice removed, and so on. For example, if Phil and Marie are first cousins, and Marie has a son Andre, then Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed. If Andre has a daughter Sarah (Marie’s granddaughter), then Phil and Sarah are first cousins twice removed.
• A patrilineal or paternal cousin is a father’s niece or nephew, and a matrilineal or maternal cousin a mother’s. Paternal and maternal parallel cousins are a father’s brother’s child and mother’s sister’s child, respectively; paternal and maternal cross cousins are a father’s sister’s child and mother’s brother’s child, respectively.

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See also

• once removed
• thrice removed
• twice removed

Verb

cousin (third-person singular simple present cousins, present participle cousining, simple past and past participle cousined)

1. (transitive, rare)
   1. To address (someone) as "cousin".
   2. (also reflexive) To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
2. (intransitive, chiefly US, informal or regional)
   1. To associate with someone or something on a close basis.
   2. To visit a cousin or other relation.

Translations

References

Further reading

• cousin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cousin (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• scioun

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.zɛ̃/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cousin, from Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] , from Latin cōnsōbrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsōbīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)).

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousine)

1. cousin (male)

Derived terms

• cousin germain

Descendants

• → Turkish: kuzen

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin culicīnus (“mosquito-like”), from culex (“gnat, midge”).

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins)

1. (regional, archaic) mosquito

   Synonym: moustique

Derived terms

• cousinière (“mosquito net”)

Further reading

• “cousin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cosin, from Latin cōnsōbrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsōbīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)).

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine singular cousine, feminine plural cousines)

1. male cousin

Descendants

• French: cousin

Norman

Alternative forms

• couôsîn (Standard Jèrriais)
• couôthîn (Saint Ouen)

Etymology

From Old French cosin, from Latin cōnsōbrīnus.

Noun

cousin m (plural cousins, feminine cousaine)

1. (Guernsey) (male) cousin