cognate object
noun
Grammar.
a substantive functioning as the object of a verb, especially of a verb that is usually intransitive, when both object and verb are derived from the same root. Speech in Speak the speech is a cognate object.
Origin of cognate object
First recorded in 1875–80
Words nearby cognate object
cogitation,
cogitative,
cogito, ergo sum,
cognac,
cognate,
cognate object,
cognation,
cognisant,
cognition,
cognitive,
cognitive behavioural therapy