linage

English

Noun

linage (countable and uncountable, plural linages)

1. (now uncommon) Alternative spelling of lineage
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:4:

     And Ioseph also wēt vp frō Galilee, out of the citie of Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Bethlehem, (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)

References

• linage, lineage at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Eaglin, Ealing, Neglia, genial, igneal

Old French

Noun

linage oblique singular, m (oblique plural linages, nominative singular linages, nominative plural linage)

1. lineage
   • c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, lines 625–6:

     Celui ki l'engendrat, la mere ki le portat,
     Tuz ces de sun linage, tant est de sainte curage,

     He who begat him [Jesus], the mother than carried him,
     All those of his lineage, he is of so a holy mind

Synonyms

• parentage

Descendants

• → Old Galician-Portuguese: linnage
  • Galician: liñaxe
  • Portuguese: linhagem