parentage

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
2. (countable, uncountable) The social quality of one's class in society.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Origin; derivation.

Synonyms

lineage

origin

birth

descent

pedigree

parenthood

ancestry

blood

🩸

stock

line

bloodline

extraction

descendant

clan

line of descent

family

👪

nationality

stemma

blood line

heredity

identity

genealogy

history

good family

coancestry

granddams

grandsires

parental quality

background

come from

derivation

fatherhood

house

🏠

ichimon

kin

kinfolk

kinsfolk

kinship

original

paternity

phratry

posterity

progeny

relationship

relatives

seniority

succession

family background

Sept

family line

Translations

Abstammung

linaje

origine

καταγωγή

parentesco

origen

stirpe

parenté

Herkunft

discendenza

naissance

llinatge

ذُرّيّة

nissaga

généalogie

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French parentage.