pedigree

See also: pédigrée

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

Noun

pedigree (countable and uncountable, 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.]

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Mala (New Guinea) root pedigree- not found

Translations

chart of ancestors

• Belarusian: радаво́д m (radavód)
• Bulgarian: родосло́вие (bg) n (rodoslóvie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家譜／家谱 (zh) (jiāpǔ), 家谱 (zh) (jiāpǔ), 系譜／系谱 (zh) (xìpǔ), 系谱 (zh) (xìpǔ)

• Czech: rodokmen m
• Dutch: stamboom (nl)
• Finnish: sukutaulu, kantakirja
• French: pedigree (fr) m
• Galician: pedigree m
• German: Ahnentafel f
• Hebrew: יִחוּס m (yiḥǘs)
• Japanese: 系図 (けいず, keizu), 血統 (ja) (けっとう, kettō), 系譜 (けいふ, keifu)
• Macedonian: родословие n (rodoslovie)
• Malay: pedigri
• Maori: kāwai, kāwei
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stamtavle m or f

  Nynorsk: stamtavle f

• Polish: rodowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedigree (pt) m
• Russian: родосло́вная (ru) f (rodoslóvnaja), родосло́вие (ru) n (rodoslóvije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родословље n

  Roman: rodoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: rodokmeň m
• Slovene: rodovnik (sl) m
• Spanish: pedigrí (es)
• Swedish: antavla (sv) c, stamtavla (sv) c, stamträd (sv) n
• Ukrainian: родові́д m (rodovíd)
• Welsh: tras m

a person's ancestral history

• Maori: kākano
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

good breeding

• Italian: di razza, purosangue (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: vyšľachtený m, čistokrvný m

Adjective

pedigree (comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree)

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

Verb

pedigree (third-person singular simple present pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing, simple past and past participle pedigreed)

1. (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

See also

• genealogy

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pedigree”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree (chart of ancestors, showing the breed of an animal)

Adjective

pedigree (invariable)

1. purebred; pedigree

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Spanish

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree