lineage

lignée, ascendance

Suite des membres d’une famille qui relie une personne à un ancêtre.

En anglais simple : The line of family members through which a person is connected to an earlier ancestor.

• He is proud of his lineage.
• They traced their lineage through several generations.
• The records suggest that she has royal lineage.

Comment l'utiliser : trace someone's lineage to someone (She traced her lineage to a family of farmers.)

Synonymes : ancestry, descent, parentage

Expressions courantes : royal lineage, trace someone's lineage, family lineage, common lineage