- A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
“A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.”
“Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group m”
- Any maternal female relative.
- Related to someone by female connections.
- Related on the maternal side of the family.
- Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
- Growing out.
Formsenates(plural) · more enate(comparative) · most enate(superlative)