lineage

• linage

From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); see line.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/

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lineage (plural lineages)

1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
   • 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC‎:

     They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

2. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
   • 1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical

     Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

• line
• lineal
• linear

• genealogy

• lineage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lineage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.