is hacer a cognate?

Question

Is hacer a spanish cognate?

Answer 1

Kind of.

Hacer comes from the Latin fac?re. In English we use a form of the same word in the suffix "-fication."

E.g. justification - "an act of justifying," among other things.

thank you ! - kchinojosa04, Aug 30, 2010

Answer 2

Hola,

Lazarus is right, by strict definition, however, a more exhaustive search of the definition will render the meaning, "similar".

The word cognate is commonly used by Spanish to English teachers, to mean, a Spanish word for which there is an English word with, the same or similar spelling, similar pronunciation and the same or similar meaning.

For example, the Spanish word grande is a cognate of the English word grand.

Finding "cognates", is a learning tool and a good way to increase your "vocabulario".

Watch out for false cognates. For example, asistir doesn't mean (to) assist, but, (to) attend. False cognates are sometimes called false friends.

So, using this meaning of the word cognate, the Spanish word hacer and the English word/s (to) do/make, are not cognates.

Answer 3

It is a cognate with many English words, such as "fact", "affair", "honorific", "Infect", "factor", and many other words.