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hypocoristic
filiation
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PRONUNCIATION:

(fil-ee-AY-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The fact of being descended or derived from someone or something.
2. The act of determining such relationship.
3. Forming of a new branch.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin filius (son). Earliest documented use: 1529.

USAGE:

“French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner recently asked the German government to grant citizenship to French war babies who seek it after tracing their filiation.”
Edward Cody; “At Last I Had a Father”; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Dec 12, 2009.

See more usage examples of filiation in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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