sibling
English
/ˈsɪblɪŋ/
noun
Definitions
- A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- (comptheory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old English sibling (a relation, relative, kinsman) suffix from English sib.
Origin
English
sib
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Sippenhaft English
- co-sibling-in-law English
- fucker English
- fullsib English
- gossip English
- half-sib English
- half-sibling English
- half-sibling-in-law English
- intersibling English
- listsib English
- nonsibling English
- pseudosibling English
- sib English
- sib-in-law English
- siblicide English
- sibling fucker English
- sibling-in-law English
- siblinged English
- siblinghood English
- siblingless English
- siblinglessness English
- siblinglike English
- siblingly English
- siblingship English
- sibred English
- sibset English
- sibship English
- step-sibling English
- stepsib English
- stepsibling English
- Sippe German
- Wortsippe German
- сиблинг Russian
- sibb Old English
- sibling Old English
- sib Middle English
- sippe Middle High German
- sib
- gossip
- sibred
- sibset
- fucker
- fullsib
- listsib
- stepsib
- sibship
- half-sib
- siblicide
- siblinged
- siblingly
- nonsibling
- Sippenhaft
- sib-in-law
- stepsibling
- siblinglike
- siblinghood
- siblingship
- siblingless
- step-sibling
- half-sibling
- intersibling
- pseudosibling
- sibling-in-law
- sibling fucker
- siblinglessness
- co-sibling-in-law
- half-sibling-in-law