pedigree

See also: pédigrée

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

pedigree (countable and uncountable, plural pedigrees)

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, published 2013, page 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.]

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Mala (New Guinea) root pedigree- not found

Translations

chart of ancestors

• Belarusian: радаво́д m (radavód)
• Bulgarian: родосло́вие (bg) n (rodoslóvie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家譜／家谱 (zh) (jiāpǔ), 系譜／系谱 (zh) (xìpǔ)

• Czech: rodokmen m
• Dutch: stamboom (nl)
• Finnish: sukutaulu (fi), kantakirja
• French: pedigree (fr) m
• Galician: pedigree m
• German: Ahnentafel f
• Hebrew: יִחוּס m (yiḥǘs)
• Japanese: 系図 (ja) (けいず, keizu), 血統 (ja) (けっとう, kettō), 系譜 (ja) (けいふ, keifu)
• Macedonian: родосло́вие n (rodoslóvie)
• Malay: pedigri
• Maori: kāwai, kāwei
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stamtavle m or f

  Nynorsk: stamtavle f

• Old Norse: kynkvísl f, langfeðgatal n
• Ottoman Turkish: سلسله‌نامه (silsilename)
• Polish: rodowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedigree (pt) m
• Russian: родосло́вная (ru) f (rodoslóvnaja), родосло́вие (ru) n (rodoslóvije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родословље n

  Roman: rodoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: rodokmeň m
• Slovene: rodovnik (sl) m
• Spanish: pedigrí (es)
• Swedish: antavla (sv) c, stamtavla (sv) c, stamträd (sv) n
• Turkish: silsilename (tr)
• Ukrainian: родові́д m (rodovíd)
• Welsh: tras m

a person's ancestral history

• Bulgarian: родословие (bg) n (rodoslovie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家譜／家谱 (zh) (jiāpǔ)

• Finnish: sukuhistoria
• Maori: kākano (mi)

good breeding

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 純種的／纯种的 (chúnzhǒngde)

• Finnish: puhdasrotuisuus (fi) (of animals)
• Italian: di razza, purosangue (it) m
• Slovak: vyšľachtený m, čistokrvný m

Adjective

pedigree (comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree)

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

Verb

pedigree (third-person singular simple present pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing, simple past and past participle pedigreed)

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

See also

• genealogy

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pedigree”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.di.ɡʁe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. Alternative spelling of pédigrée (“pedigree”)

Further reading

• “pedigree”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pedigree.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pe.d͡ʒiˈɡɾi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɛ.diˈɡɾi/ [pɛ.ðiˈɣɾi]

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree (chart of ancestors, showing the breed of an animal)

Adjective

pedigree (invariable)

1. purebred; pedigree

Romanian

Noun

pedigree n (plural pedigreeuri)

1. Alternative form of pedigri

Declension

Declension of pedigree

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pedigree	pedigreeul	(niște) pedigreeuri	pedigreeurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pedigree	pedigreeului	(unor) pedigreeuri	pedigreeurilor
vocative	pedigreeule		pedigreeurilor

Spanish

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree