Genealogy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ge=ne=al=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

Genealogy, n. [OE. genealogi, genelogie, OF. genelogie, F. généalogie, L. genealogia, fr. Gr. ; birth, race, descent (akin to L. genus) + discourse.].

•  An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.  [1913 Webster]
•  Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Genealogy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. b an account or exposition of this.
2 the study and investigation of lines of descent.
3 a plant's or animal's line of development from earlier forms.

Derivative

genealogist n. genealogize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise).

Etymology

ME f. OF genealogie f. LL genealogia f. Gk genealogia f. genea race

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Genealogy

n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

ROGET THESAURUS

Genealogy

Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.