COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)

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COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin) , a

term

TERM

of relationship. Children of

brothers

BROTHERS,
RICHARD
(1757-1824)

and sisters are to each other first cousins, or cousinsgerman; the children of first cousins are to each other second cousins, and so on; the child of a first

cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN,
JEAN
- JEAN
(1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

is to the first

cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN,
JEAN
- JEAN
(1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

of his father or

mother

MOTHER

a first cousin once removed.
The word cousin has also, since the 16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

, been used by sovereigns as an honorific style in addressing persons of exalted, but not equal sovereign, rank, the

term

TERM

" brother " being reserved as the style used by one sovereign in addressing another. Thus, in

Great

GREAT

Britain, dukes, marquesses and earls are addressed by the sovereign in royal writs, &c., as " cousin." In France the kings thus addressed princes of the blood royal, cardinals and archbishops, dukes and peers, the marshals of France, the grand

officers

OFFICERS

of the crown and certain foreign princes. In Spain the right to be thus addressed is a privilege of the grandees.

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