See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar See also:

• ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short)

abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)  , a See also:

• TERM

term of relationship . See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

Children of See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers and sisters are to each other first See also:

• COUSINS, SAMUEL (18o1-1887)

cousins, or cousinsgerman; the children of first cousins are to each other second cousins, and so on; the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child of a first See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin is to the first cousin of his See also:

• FATHER

father or See also:

• MOTHER

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

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

century, been used by sovereigns as an honorific See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style in addressing persons of exalted, but not equal See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign, See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank, the term " See also:

• BROTHER

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

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes, marquesses and earls are addressed by the sovereign in royal writs, &c., as " cousin." In See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings thus addressed princes of the See also:

• BLOOD

blood royal, cardinals and archbishops, dukes and peers, the marshals of France, the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• OFFICERS

officers of the See also:

• CROWN

crown and certain See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign princes . In See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain the right to be thus addressed is a See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege of the grandees .