# cognate accusative
## English
### Etymology

Calque of Latin accūsātīvus cognātus (“a cognate accusative”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏgʹnāt əkyo͞oʹzətĭv, IPA: /ˈkɒɡneɪt əˈkjuːzətɪv/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑɡˌneɪt əˈkjuzətɪv/, /-ɾɪv/
* Hyphenation: cog‧nate ac‧cu‧sa‧tive

### Noun

cognate accusative (plural cognate accusatives)
* (grammar) An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”).
** 1856, John Day Collis, “Division III. Exercises on the Commonest Rules of Greek Syntax.”, in Praxis Græca. A Series of Elementary, Progressive, and Miscellaneous Questions and Exercises on Greek Grammar, part II (Syntax), London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, →OCLC, exercise LXXVIII, paragraph 11, page 214:These accusatives cognate are to be translated into English.
** 1874, Henry John Roby, “Use of the Accusative Case”, in A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius [...] In Two Parts, part II (Containing Book IV. Syntax. Also Prepositions &c.), London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 1100, page 40:The extent of action of the verb may be expressed by a substantive of the same meaning as the verb, accompanied (usually) by an oblique adjectival predicate. (Cognate accusative.)
** 1876, C[harles] P[eter] Mason, “Syntax”, in English Grammar Including the Principles of Grammatical Analysis, 21st edition, London: George Bell & Sons, →OCLC; 21st Canadian copyright edition, Toronto, Ont.: Adam Miller & Co., 1877, →OCLC, section 372, subsection 4, page 148:What is often termed the cognate accusative (or objective) (as in ‘to run a race,’ ‘to die a happy death’) should more properly be classed among the adverbial adjuncts. [Footnote: The cognate objective sometimes appears in a metaphorical shape, as in “to look daggers at a person”; “To rain fire and brimstone.” The vague pronoun it is freely used in this construction, as, “We shall have to rough it”; “Go it, boys,” &c.]

#### Alternative forms

* accusative cognate
* acc. cogn., cogn. acc. (abbreviations)

#### Synonyms

* cognate object

#### Translations
### See also

* figura etymologica
* polyptoton

### References

* ↑ Ernest Hemingway (1929) chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 149.
* ↑ William Shakespeare (c. 1599) “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1: “Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]”
* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Cognate, a. and sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 595, column 2.

### Further reading

* cognate object on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* accusative cognate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /koɡˈnaː.te ak.kuː.saːˈtiː.u̯e/, [kɔŋˈnäːt̪ɛ äkːuːs̠äːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /koɲˈɲa.te ak.ku.saˈti.ve/, [koɲˈɲäːt̪e äkːus̬äˈt̪iːve]

### Noun

cognāte accūsātīve m
* vocative singular of cognātus accūsātīvus