alcurnia

f.

1 lineage, descent.

2 noble ancestry, noble lineage, lineage, noble descent.

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alcurnia

► nombre femenino

1 lineage, ancestry

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FRASEOLOGÍA

de alta alcurnia of noble lineage

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SF ancestry, lineage

de alcurnia — of noble family, of noble birth

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femenino ancestry, lineage (liter)

de alta alcurnia — of noble birth

una familia de alcurnia — an old family

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= ancestry, lineage, noble birth.

Ex. These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).

Ex. The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.

Ex. In America social rank depends substantially on wealth, an accident as much as noble birth, but movable.

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* de alta alcurnia = well-born.

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femenino ancestry, lineage (liter)

de alta alcurnia — of noble birth

una familia de alcurnia — an old family

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= ancestry, lineage, noble birth.

Ex: These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).

Ex: The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.

Ex: In America social rank depends substantially on wealth, an accident as much as noble birth, but movable.

* de alta alcurnia = well-born.

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alcurnia

feminine

ancestry, lineage (liter)

de alta alcurnia of noble birth o ancestry o lineage

una familia de alcurnia an old family, a family whose ancestry o lineage can be traced back a long way

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alcurnia nf

lineage, descent;

una familia de noble alcurnia a family of noble descent;

una dama de alta alcurnia a lady of noble birth o lineage

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alcurnia

f ancestry;

de noble alcurnia of noble birth o ancestry

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alcurnia nf

: ancestry, lineage