pedigree

English

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pedem (“foot”) + gruem (“crane”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɛ.dɪ.ɡɹi/, X-SAMPA: /"pEd.I.gri/

Noun

pedigree (plural pedigrees)

1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. [from 15th c.]
2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage. [from 15th c.]
3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry. [from 15th c.]
4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 33:

     This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.

5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse. [from 17th c.]

Translations

chart of ancestors

• Belarusian: радавод (be) (radavód) m
• Bulgarian: родословие (bg) (rodoslóvie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家譜 (cmn), 家谱 (cmn) (jiāpǔ), 系譜 (cmn), 系谱 (cmn) (xìpǔ)

• Czech: rodokmen (cs) m
• Dutch: stamboom (nl)
• Finnish: sukutaulu (fi)
• French: pedigree (fr) m
• German: Ahnentafel (de) f
• Japanese: 系図 (ja) (けいず, keizu), 血統 (ja) (けっとう, kettō), 系譜 (ja) (けいふ, keifu)
• Macedonian: родословие (mk) (rodoslóvie) n

• Polish: rodowód (pl) m
• Russian: родословная (ru) (rodoslóvnaja) f, родословие (ru) (rodoslóvije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родословље (sh) n

  Roman: rodoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: rodokmeň (sk) m
• Slovene: rodovnik (sl) m
• Spanish: pedigrí (es)
• Swedish: antavla (sv) c, stamtavla (sv) c
• Ukrainian: родовід (uk) (rodovíd) m

good breeding

• Italian: di razza (it), purosangue (it) m

• Slovak: vyšľachtený (sk) m, čistokrvný (sk) m

Adjective

pedigree (comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree)

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

See also

• genealogy