• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: male: cousin, female: cousine - 1. cousin (male and female)


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan cosí ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish female: kusine ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Dutch also: cousin ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
English cousin 1160 'meaning 1, also called first cousin, full cousin or cousin-german;

and also: a) arelative descended from a common ancestor, such as a grandparent, by two or more steps in a diverging line; b) a relative by blood or marriage, a kinsman or kinswoman; c) a member of a kindred group or country: our Canadian cousins; d) something similar in quality or character e) used as a form of address by a sovereign in addressing another sovereign or a high-ranking member of the nobility

f) slang. a gullible, innocent person who is easily duped or taken advantage of'

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Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German male: Cousin, female: Cousine 1663 'meaning 1' '...' http://www.koeblergerhard.de/derwbhin.html
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian male,female: cugino ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian female: kusine ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Polish male, female: kuzyn ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish male, female: kusin ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...

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Etymology: from OF cosin, from L consobrinus "mother's sister's child", from com- "together" + sobrinus (earlier *sosrinos) "cousin on mother's side", from soror (gen. sororis) "sister". Used familiarly as a term of address since 1430, especially in Cornwall. Your first cousin (also cousin-german) is the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt; your children and your first cousin's are second cousins to one another; to you, your first cousin's children are first cousin once removed.

Phrase kissing cousin is Southern U.S. expression, 1940s, denoting "those close enough to be kissed in salutation"; Kentish cousin (1796) is an old British term for "distant relative".


Source: http://www.etymonline.com

Information on Other Languages

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Czech: male: bratranec; female: sestřenice

Danish: male: fætter

Dutch: male: neef; female: nicht

Estonian: male: nõbu, tädipoeg, -tütar; female: onupoeg, -tütar

Finnish: serkku

Hungarian: unokatestvér

Latvian: male: brālēns; female: māsīca

Lithuanian: male: pusbrolis; female: pusseserė

Norwegian: søskenbarn; male: fetter

Portugese: male: primo; female: prima

Slovak: male: bratranec; female: sesternica

Slovenian: male: bratranec; female: sestrična

Spanish male: primo; female: prima