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3:46

Majesty

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/09/12

majesty — sovereign power; a royal personage, or, when capitalized, a title used to address or refer to the reigning king or queenmajestad — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningsI felt compelled to address this word after the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, last week. After such a long reign, there will be many tributes to her, so this is my very humble addition to those. I enjoyed the Netflix series, “The Crown,” so much that I felt incredibly saddened at her passing even though she

3:35

Adumbrate

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/09/05

adumbrate — to cast a shadow over something; to foreshadowadumbrar — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning“Adumbrate” is not a very common word in English, and I don’t think it’s cognate counterpart in Spanish is highly used either; however, the root of these two words comes from Latin’s umbra which means “shade” or “shadow.” In English, the word “umbra” also means “shade” or “shadow,” and sometimes it is used quite specifically in science to refer to a conical shadow cast by a celestial body.In

4:17

Quintet

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/08/29

Check out this “quintet” of giraffes! I recommend you hit the audio playback arrow above for this episode.quintet — any group of five persons or thingsquinteto — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningThere aren’t many English-Spanish cognates that begin with the letter Q. In Spanish, you will only find the letter “Q” used when it’s followed by the combinations of “UE” or “UI.” That’s it. If you are attempting to place a “Q” in front of any letter besides a “U” then you are misspelling the Spanish

3:06

Jubilate

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/08/22

jubilate — to rejoice and show great joyjubilar — the Spanish verb cognate of the same meaningThe adjective “jubilant” has masculine, “jubiloso,” and feminine, “jubilosa,” (as well as plural — “jubilosos” and “jubilosas”) counterparts in Spanish. The noun “jubilation” is simply “júbilo” in Spanish. I chose the verb “jubilate,” which is “jubilar” in Spanish, because it means something else in Spanish — something that has brought me great “jubilation.”“Jubilar” also means “to retire.” In that meaning,

3:11

Castor

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2022/08/15

castor — a beavercastor — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningI recently visited Agate Fossil Beds National Monument with my daughter who is one year away from becoming a full-fledged paleontologist — to read about our trip, click here: Agate and other fossil stopsWhile we were there, I read about and saw a film about these ancient corkscrew-shaped burrows that were discovered at Agate in 1891. They turned out to be the burrows of the Palaeocastor. A Palaeocastor is an extinct type of beaver. As

3:27

Flora

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2022/07/25

flora — the plants that are characteristic of a region or time periodflora — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningFirst, I want to share with you this concise explanation from merriam-webster.com:Flora means "flower" in Latin, and Flora was the Roman goddess of spring and flowering plants, especially wildflowers and plants not raised for food. She was shown as a beautiful young woman in a long, flowing dress with flowers in her hair, strewing flowers over the earth. English preserves her name in

3:54

Reunion

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/07/18

reunion — a gathering of people who have not been together for some timereuniόn — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning, but it’s more commonly used to mean a “meeting” (thus the reason for the above photo)In honor of my upcoming class “reunion,” I thought I’d address this word today. As I mentioned in the definitions above, though, the Spanish cognate is used more to designate “meetings” like those you have at work, but even in that meaning, the word is used to show that people are coming

4:08

Peregrine

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2022/07/11

peregrine — an adjective meaning that you have a tendency to wanderperegrino — the masculine Spanish cognate noun that translates to “pilgrim”peregrina — the feminine Spanish cognate noun that also translates to “pilgrim”As you can see, we don’t use the word “peregrine” in English to mean “pilgrim,” which is what it means in Spanish, so on the surface it may not appear to be a cognate, but hopefully you can see a connection between the two words. If you can’t, here is what is found on

4:14

Liberty

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2022/07/04

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty’s real name is “Liberty Enlightening the World?” Sometimes we call her “Lady Liberty,” too, and that’s my favorite nickname for her. She’s lovely, isn’t she, but what she represents is one of the loveliest things humans can experience, so on this special day when people all over the United States are celebrating their liberty, I thought it would be a good time to share some cognate cognizance about the word. liberty — the state or quality of being free (this

4:03

Mariner

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2022/06/27

mariner — a sailor or a seafarermarinero — the masculine Spanish cognate of the same meaningmarinera — the feminine Spanish cognateI love the sea, yet I live as far inland as one can get from a sea or an ocean here in the U.S.A. I’ve long said that I was born in the wrong locale and that I hope to retire near the sea someday. Time will tell, but if I could have chosen the place where I grew up, it would have been seaside.In Spanish, the word for the sea is “mar.” It comes from Latin’s mare, which

3:09

Paterfamilias

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2022/06/19

paterfamilias — the male head of a household is its original meaning; the father of a familypaterfamilias — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningsIt varies only slightly in Italian to “paterfamilia.”The Latin word of “familia” originally referred to one’s household, which included people related to you by blood as well as people who served you, so that’s why the original meaning of this word simply denotes the male head of a household. He would have been the eldest male, and he would have had

4:22

Infinitive

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2022/06/13

infinitive — the basic form of the verb before it is changed for tense or subject (if you can put “to” in front of it, then it’s the infinitive form)infinitivo — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningIn English class sometime in your past, you may have heard the grammar “rule” that tells you not to split an “infinitive,” yet you may never even have been taught what an “infinitive” is. Knowing what one is comes in very handy when studying Spanish, Italian, or many other foreign languages. Verbs

3:54

Aviation

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/06/06

aviation — the act of flying by mechanical means in heavier-than-air craftsaviaciόn — the Spanish cognate of the same meaningThese words come to us from the Latin word avis which means “bird.” In English, we use the first three letters to begin words that deal with flight. If you are an “aviator,” you pilot a plane, and thus you fly like a bird.The Spanish word for bird is “ave.” “Ave” can be hard for students to remember because it looks nothing like our word “bird.” “Bird” comes to us from Old

3:19

Memory

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/05/30

memory — a person or thing remembered (this is only one of the many definitions for “memory,” but it’s the one I want to use for today — Memorial Day)memoria — the Spanish (and Italian) cognate of the same meaning (and others)“Memory” and “memoria” come from the Latin word memoria, and you can see that it didn’t change its spelling in Spanish (or Italian). The Latin word was made from memor which means “mindful” or “remembering.”There are many other words that come to us from memor. Today, for

2:53

Odious

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2022/05/23

odious — hateful or deserving of hatredodioso — the Spanish and Italian masculine adjective cognates of the same meaningodiosa — the Spanish and Italian feminine adjective cognates of the same meaningKnowing the adjective “odious” in English makes learning a common Spanish infinitive so much easier. The Spanish verb for “to hate” is “odiar.” In Italian, the verb is “odiare.” The Spanish and Italian verbs come from Latin’s odisse, but our English word of hate comes down to us from a long journey that

3:39

Testament

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2022/05/16

testament — a will or legal disposition of one’s personal propertytestamento — the Spanish cognate of the same definitionIn English, we more often use the word “will” instead of “testament,” but if you know “testament” as its synonym, then it’s easy to learn the Spanish word for “will” which is “testamento.” In English, the word “testament” has gained more of a religious association, but the word began in Latin with testis which meant “witness.”When you make a covenant, or testament, with God or

3:04

Arbiter

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/05/09

arbiter — a judge or someone who can decide the outcome of a disputeárbitro — the masculine Spanish noun of the same meaningárbitra — the feminine Spanish nounWhen learning Spanish, I came upon “árbitro” in the vocabulary for sports because it’s the word for “referee.” I was young then and hadn’t had any contact with the legal system yet, so I couldn’t make the connection and had a hard time remembering the word “árbitro” for “referee.”It didn’t stick, but years later, when I was teaching Spanish

3:29

Supplicate

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/05/02

supplicate — to humbly and earnestly ask for somethingsuplicar — the Spanish verb cognate of the same meaningBoth these words come from Latin’s supplicare which means “to kneel.” Another version of asking humbly or earnestly for something happens when one kneels to pray. Thus, when you kneel and pray, you become a “supplicant,” or one who is humbly and earnestly asking for something. In Spanish, that is also a handy cognate of “suplicante.”“Supplication” which is the act of humbly asking for

3:50

Defile

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/04/25

defile — a verb meaning “to march in a military line”desfilar — the Spanish verb and cognate meaning “to parade past”Unlike English, the Spanish verb isn’t reserved for military processions, and for that reason, it is much better known and much more commonly used than its English cognate. In fact, when you read the title of this entry, I doubt military parade marching even entered your mind, and you may have been quite confused by my subtitle. In English, when we hear or read the word “defile,” we

3:52

Silva

Cognate Cognizance Podcast ·

2022/04/18

silva — the forest trees of a regionselva — the Spanish cognate meaning “forest” or even “jungle”“Silva” and “selva” both come from Latin’s sylva which means “forest” or “wood.” While the word “silva” isn’t used very often in English, the adjective of “sylvan” is quite well known.I’ve been spending time lately in a sylvan part of the country as I’m in Tennessee, surrounded by the woods of the Appalachian Mountains. In fact, a few days ago, I took a hike along a portion of the Appalachian Trail that

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