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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

名詞

pedigree (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.]

派生語

関連する語

形容詞

pedigree (comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree)

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

動詞

pedigree (三人称単数 現在形 pedigrees, 現在分詞 pedigreeing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pedigreed)

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

参考

• genealogy

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pedigree”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.