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   Fil·i·a·tion

   /ˌfilēˈāSHən/

   

   noun

   • 1. the fact of being or of being designated the child of a particular parent or parents: "relationships based on ties of filiation as opposed to marriage"
   • ▪ the manner in which a thing is related to another from which it is derived or descended in some respect: "the filiation of Old Norse manuscripts"
   • ▪ a branch of a society or language.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from French, from ecclesiastical and medieval Latin filiatio(n-), from Latin filius ‘son’, filia ‘daughter’.

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