genealogy

noun
/ˌd͡ʒiniˈɑlədʒi/US/ˌdʒiːniˈælədʒi/UK

Etymology

From Middle English genealogie, genologie, genelogie, from Old French genealogie (Modern French généalogie), from Late Latin genealogia, from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía), from γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”).

  1. derived from genealogia
  2. derived from genealogie
  3. inherited from genealogie

Definitions

  1. The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors

    The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.

    • The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.
  2. A record or table of such descent

    A record or table of such descent; a family tree.

  3. The study, and formal recording of such descents.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for genealogy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA