| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ge·ne·al·o·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  j  n- l  -j, - l-, j n- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ge·ne·al·o·gies
1. A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree. 2. Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree. 3. The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English genealogie, from Old French, from Late Latin gene logia, from Greek genelogi : gene, family; see gen- in Appendix I + -logi, -logy. | | OTHER FORMS: | gene·a·logi·cal (--lj -kl) —ADJECTIVE
gene·a·logi·cal·ly —ADVERB
gene·alo·gist —NOUN
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