Meaning & use
Enate
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Related through the mother's line rather than the father's; also used as a noun for a maternal relative.
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The estate passed to an enate cousin on his mother's side.
Genealogists distinguish agnate relatives from enate ones when tracing family lines.
A note on using this word
"Enate" comes from Latin "enatus" ("born out of") and is mostly found in legal and genealogical writing about kinship and inheritance.
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agnate
Another way to use it
2. noun
A relative on the mother's side.
She left the heirloom to an enate rather than a paternal relation.
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