parentage

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[edit] English

Old French parentage

parentage (plural parentages)

Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
The social quality of your class in society.
- 1608, Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 5, Scene 1:
  
  My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage -- To equal mine! -- was it not thus? What say you?
origin; derivation

Pertaining to one's parents

parentage m. (oblique plural parentages, nominative singular parentages, nominative plural parentage)