pedigree

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

Noun

pedigree

1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. [from 15th c.]
2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage. [from 15th c.]
3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry. [from 15th c.]
4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 33:

     This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.

5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse. [from 17th c.]

Translations

• French: pedigree
• German: Ahnentafel
• Portuguese: pedigree
• Russian: родосло́вная
• Spanish: pedigrí

Translations

• Italian: di razza, purosangue

Adjective

pedigree

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

Verb

pedigree (pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing; past and past participle pedigreed)

1. (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

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