What is Aunt?
[[File:Kinship (english).jpg|thumb|A chart showing the names for relationships in an extended family.]] An '''aunt''' is [[Kinship|relationship]] that describes a [[woman]] who is a [[sibling]] of a [[parent]] or is [[married]] to a sibling of a parent. Aunts are sometimes called Auntie or Aunty. A man is a [[nephew]] to their Aunt and a woman is a [[niece]]. An '''aunt''' is part of an [[extended family]]. The [[child]] of an aunt's is a [[cousin]]. Often the word aunt is used with people who are not related to show [[:wikt:endearment|closeness]] or [[respect]]. In many [[culture]]s there are different words to describe a person's mother's sister and father's sister. In [[Latin]] a mother's sister is ''matertera'' while a father's sister is ''amita''.<ref>Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), p. 5.</ref> ==Detail== A maternal or paternal relative is one who is related through one's mother or father, respectively. For example, a maternal aunt is the subject's mother's sister. An in-law is a relationship that is not by blood, but instead by marriage. The in-law shares the in-law relationships of the spouse's relatives. For example, an aunt in-law could be the wife of the subject's uncle. * '''aunt''': parent's sister. * '''maternal aunt''': mother's sister. * '''paternal aunt''': father's sister. * '''half-aunt''': parent's half-sister. * '''double-half-aunt''': a person who is a half-sister of both of the subjects parents.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GENETIC AND QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF GENEALOGY|url=http://www.genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570138.html#Toc115570463|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803155256/http://www.genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570138.html#Toc115570463|archive-date=2017-08-03|access-date=2020-07-06}}</ref> * '''grandaunt''' (or '''great-aunt'''): grandparent's sister. * '''great-grandaunt''' (or '''great-great-aunt'''): great-grandparent's sister. * '''aunt-in-la