parentage (redirected from parentage exclusion testing)

par·ent·age  (pârn-tj, pr-)

n.

1. Descent from parents; lineage: of humble parentage.

2. The state or relationship of being a parent.

3. Derivation from a source; origin.

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parentage [ˈpɛərəntɪdʒ]

n

1. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) ancestry

2. derivation from a particular origin

3. a less common word for parenthood

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Parentage parents collectively, 1513.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	parentage - the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" parenthood adulthood - the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
	2.	parentage - the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents birth family relationship, kinship, relationship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
	3.	parentage - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, blood, origin, descent, stock, line kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side" family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

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parentage

noun family, birth, origin, descent, line, race, stock, pedigree, extraction, ancestry, lineage, paternity, derivation She is a Londoner of mixed English and Jamaican parentage.

Quotations
"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children" [William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude]

Translations

parentage [ˈpɛərəntɪdʒ] N → familia f
of humble parentage → de nacimiento humilde
of unknown parentage → de padres desconocidos

parentage [ˈpɛərəntɪdʒ] n → filiation f
sb's parentage → la filiation de qn
of Swedish parentage → de parents suédois
of unknown parentage → de parents inconnus

parentage

n → Herkunft f; of humble/uncertain parentage → von einfacher/ungewisser Herkunft; children of racially mixed parentage → gemischtrassige Kinder pl

parentage [ˈpɛər/əntɪdʒ] n → natali mpl
of unknown parentage → di genitori sconosciuti