ancestry

English

From Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

ancestry (plural ancestries)

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

condition as to ancestors

Asturian: llinaxe m, ascendencia f
Catalan: llinatge (ca) m, ascendència (ca) f
Dutch: voorouders (nl), afstamming (nl)
French: ascendance (fr) f
Galician: xaramea f, alcuña f, fonduxe f, castuaxe f, avoenga f, tronquidade f, ascendencia f, liñaxe (gl) f
German: Vorfahren (de) m pl
Greek: γενεαλογία (el) f (genealogía), καταγωγή (el) f (katagogí), γενεαλογικό δένδρο n (genealogikó déndro), πρόγονοι (el) m pl (prógonoi)
Italian: ascendenza (it) f, stirpe (it)

series of ancestors or progenitors

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