ascendance
French → English
noun//a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s//
(genealogy) Ancestry: the line of ancestors from which an individual descends; lineage
Grâce aux tests ADN, il a découvert qu'il avait une ascendance scandinave très lointaine.
(English) Thanks to DNA testing, he discovered he had very distant Scandinavian ancestry.
L'aristocrate était fier de son ascendance royale qui remontait au seizième siècle.
(English) The aristocrat was proud of his royal lineage dating back to the sixteenth century.
Entry ID: fr:en:ascendance · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary