filiation
French → English
(kinship) Lineage/Descent: the direct legal or biological relationship between parents and children through generations
Les tests ADN ont permis d'établir la filiation entre l'enfant et son père biologique.
(English) DNA tests allowed the lineage to be established between the child and his biological father.
Cette famille noble peut prouver sa filiation directe avec un chevalier du XIIe siècle.
(English) This noble family can prove its direct descent from a 12th-century knight.
(ideas) Connection/Derivation: a conceptual link or continuous sequence between related ideas or works
Il existe une filiation évidente entre les œuvres de ces deux peintres impressionnistes.
(English) There is an obvious connection between the works of these two Impressionist painters.
Le philosophe a expliqué la filiation des idées qui ont mené à la Révolution française.
(English) The philosopher explained the derivation of the ideas that led to the French Revolution.
Entry ID: fr:en:filiation · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary