Cousin

• Couzen, Couzens, Cozen, Cozens, Cozin, Cozins, Cossin, Cossins, Cosin, Cosins, Cusin, Cusins, Cussin, Cussins, Cousins, Cosyn, Cosyns

From Middle English Cosyn, a surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine). Literally, “familial relative”.

Cousin (plural Cousins)

1. A surname from Middle English

• Kuseng (nonstandard)

Ca. 1600, from Middle French cousin, from Latin consobrinus.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈzɛ̃/, /kuˈzɛ̃ː/, /kuˈzɛŋ/, /kʊ-/

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Cousin m (strong, genitive Cousins, plural Cousins, feminine Cousine)

1. male cousin

   Synonym: (dated) Vetter

   • 2025 July 28, Tobias Huch, X‎^[1] (post), archived from the original on 29 July 2025:

     Nachdem wir in den letzten Tagen so viele Kinder mit Erbkrankheiten in #Gaza gesehen haben, für deren genetische Erkrankungen #Israel nicht verantwortlich ist, sollten wir vielleicht mal den Menschen in Gaza erklären, dass man nicht mit seinem Cousin oder seiner Cousine ersten Grades oder allgemein Verwandten heiraten sollte. Auch wenn das angeblich Mohammed (der "Prophet") gemacht haben soll.

     After we have seen in the last few days so many children with hereditary diseases in #Gaza, for whose genetic illnesses #Israel is not responsible, maybe we should sometime make clear to the people in Gaza, that one should not marry their first-degree cousin – male or female – or relatives in general. Even if Mohammed (the "prophet") supposedly did that.

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• “Cousin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Cousin” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Cousin” in Duden online
• Cousin on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de