lineage

English

Alternative forms

• linage

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English linage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French linage, from ligne, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin linea (“line”); see line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/

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Noun

lineage (plural lineages)

1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
   • 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

2. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
   • 1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical:

     Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• line
• lineal
• linear

Translations

descent

• Bulgarian: произход (bg) m (proizhod)
• Catalan: llinatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血统 (zh) (xuètǒng), 血統／血统 (zh) (xuètǒng)

• Czech: rod (cs) m
• Dutch: geslacht (nl), nakomelingschap (nl) n, afkomst (nl) c, afstamming (nl) f
• Faroese: ætt f, ættarslag n
• Finnish: sukujuuret pl, esivanhemmat
• French: descendance (fr) f, lignée (fr) f, lignage (fr) f
• Galician: liñaxe (gl) f
• German: Abstammung (de) f, Geschlecht (de) n
• Greek: γενεαλογία (el) f (genealogía)
• Hungarian: származás (hu), eredet (hu)
• Irish: líne f, ginealach m
• Italian: discendenza (it) f, lignaggio (it) m, stirpe (it) f
• Latin: stirps m or f, prōsāpia f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: zuriat (ms)
• Manx: sheel m
• Maori: tātai (of a family tree), kaha (mi)
• Persian: تبار (fa) (tabâr)
• Polish: rodowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: linhagem (pt) f, descendência (pt) f, estirpe (pt) f
• Quechua: awkikuna
• Romanian: descendență (ro) f, filiație (ro) f
• Russian: происхожде́ние (ru) n (proisxoždénije), родосло́вная (ru) f (rodoslóvnaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìol m, sinnsearachd f, sliochd m
• Slovak: rod (sk)
• Spanish: linaje (es) m, estirpe (es) f
• Swahili: kizazi (sw)
• Turkish: köken (tr), nesil (tr), soy (tr)
• Welsh: tras m

number of lines

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: lijnental n
• Finnish: rivimäärä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: lignage (fr) m
• Italian: righe (it) f pl
• Russian: число́ (čisló) строк (strok) (čisló strok) n
• Swahili: kizazi (sw)

See also

• genealogy

References

• “lineage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lineage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.