different between genealogy vs lineage

English

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Alternative forms

• geneology (common misspelling)

Etymology

From Old French genealogie (Modern French généalogie), from Late Latin genealogia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (genealogía), from ????? (geneá, “generation, descent”) and -????? (-logía, “study of”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?ini??l?d?i/, /?d?ini?æl?d?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?i?ni?æl?d?i/, (sometimes proscribed) /?d?i?ni??l?d?i/
• Hyphenation: ge?ne?al?o?gy

Noun

genealogy (countable and uncountable, plural genealogies)

1. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
2. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
3. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

Synonyms

• pedigree

Related terms

• genealogical
• genealogically
• genealogist

Translations

See also

• family history
• lineage

English

Alternative forms

• linage

Etymology

From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ni.?d?/

Noun

lineage (countable and uncountable, plural lineages)

1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
2. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
3. A fee or rate paid per line of text.

Related terms

• line
• lineal
• linear

Translations

See also

• genealogy

References

• lineage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lineage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.