different between lineage vs tribe

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

tribe (plural tribes)

1. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
5. The collective noun for various animals.
6. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Derived terms

• tribal
• tribally
• tribelet

Translations

Verb

tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)

1. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
   • 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library

     Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

See also

• ethnic
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trybe, tribu

Etymology

From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/

Noun

tribe (plural tribus)

1. One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2. (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
3. (rare) A league or grouping.

Descendants

• English: tribe

References

• “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.