consanguineous

English

Alternative forms

• consanguinous

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin consanguineus (with English -ous), from con- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from sanguis (“blood”). Equivalent to con- +‎ sanguineous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪni.əs/, /kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnjəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑnsæŋˈɡwɪni.əs/, /kɑnsæŋˈɡwɪnjəs/

Adjective

consanguineous (not comparable)

1. Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

   Synonyms: consanguine, consanguineal, same-blooded

   Antonym: affinal

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?

   • 2002, B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary consanguineous marriage," Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225,

     Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.

Derived terms

• consanguineously
• nonconsanguineous

 

Related terms

• consanguinity
• consanguinuity

Translations

related by birth

• Belarusian: ро́днасны (ródnasny), аднакро́ўны (adnakróŭny), адзінакро́ўны (adzinakróŭny)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同宗的 (tóngzōng de)

• Dutch: bloedverwant (nl), consanguin
• Finnish: verisukulainen (fi)
• French: consanguin (fr)
• German: blutsverwandt, konsanguin (de), leiblich (de)
• Hungarian: édes- (hu), vér szerinti (hu)
• Italian: consanguineo (it)
• Maori: kōpūtahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjødelig (no)

• Portuguese: carnal (pt), consanguíneo (pt)
• Romanian: consangvin (ro)
• Russian: ро́дственный (ru) (ródstvennyj), единокро́вный (ru) (jedinokróvnyj)
• Spanish: carnal (es), consanguíneo
• Turkish: akraba (tr)
• Ukrainian: роди́нний (rodýnnyj), однокро́вний (odnokróvnyj), єдинокро́вний (jedynokróvnyj)

Further reading

• “consanguineous”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.