family treen.

Brit.

/ˌfam(ᵻ)lɪ ˈtriː/,

/ˌfaml̩ɪ ˈtriː/, U.S.

/ˌfæm(ə)li ˈtri/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: family n., tree n.

Etymology: < family n. + tree n.With sense 2b compare later Stammbaum n. and its German etymon.

1. A genealogical diagram tracing the generations of a family; the relationships represented in such a diagram; lineage. Also in extended use: one's ancestors or descendants considered collectively. Cf. pedigree n. 1, tree n. 6a. In quot. 1752 with the sense: a single generation within a lineage.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > degree in descent

kneec1000

greec1315

generationa1387

degreea1400

descent1538

descendancy1603

remove1741

family tree1752

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc.

tree1297

pedigreec1425

Jesse1463

kindred's tree1605

birth brief1662

family tree1752

pedigree-stick1893

stemma1904

1752 H. ap D. Price Genuine Acct. Life & Trans. xvi. 264 His best Coat..might be but little short in Antiquity, to the Root of his third Family Tree.

1763 J. Boswell Jrnl. 25 Dec. in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 106 The family tree. Write for him name and titles and small tree of your family.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lx. 116 An English Esquire would as soon walk abroad in his grandfather's wedding suit, as suffer the family Tree to be seen in his hall.

a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval (1867) i. 7 I once drew a fine family tree of my ancestors.

1884 Med. Times & Gaz. 22 Mar. 379/1 The coincidence of phthisis and rheumatic fever in family trees had been noted.

1946 A. L. Poole Obligations of Society in 12th & 13th Cent. ii. 22 The elaborate family tree of Aubrey is remarkable, and would be the envy of the modern pedigree hunter.

1974 W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 254 Now thirty-five years married, we know we found our way... We started our own family tree, branching sturdily.

1995 New Yorker 8 May 92/3 Award winners..proceeded to speed-thank their entire family tree: parents, grandparents, godparents, babies yet to be born, [etc.].

2009 S. T. Asma On Monsters (2011) ix. 132 Waterton was born into an upper-class British family in Yorkshire, one that proudly traced its family tree back to Sir Thomas More.

a. figurative and in figurative context. A set of related concepts or things regarded as resembling a family tree (sense 1) in some way; a (real or imagined) diagram which groups, or traces the development of, related concepts or things. Now frequently with preceding modifying word.

ΚΠ

1830 D. Webster in Niles' Weekly Reg. 6 Mar. 38/1 Spreading before us the family tree of political parties, he takes especial care to shew himself, snugly perched on a popular bough!

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 8 Mar. 4/3 Let us look to the branches. Bank expansion is one. The free use of Credits abroad another... The catalogue might be swelled to a family tree of enormous dimensions.

1931 W. C. MacLeod Origin & Hist. Politics vii. 108 A state positively belongs where it is placed in the family tree of states, or it does not.

1962 New Statesman 7 Sept. 287/1 His method is to examine the ‘Family Tree’ of anarchism, with its roots in Lao-Tse, Zeno and the Essenes.

1991 J. DeMont Citizens Irving (1992) Prol. 4 Their corporate family tree..is virtually indecipherable to outsiders: subsidiaries are owned by holding companies, which are controlled by foreign shell corporations.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Apr. 108/1 Somewhere in the same family tree, along with the hand-held computers and the mobile phones, sits..the remote control.

b. spec. A diagram representing the relationships between specified languages; the relationships represented in such a diagram.

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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages > diagram representing

family tree1852

Stammbaum1939

tree-diagram1965

1852 N.-Y. Q. Oct. 312 A family tree of languages, with all its ramifications in proper position and proportion, is a thing hardly to be looked for before several generations of philologists shall have been on the stage.

1897 J. M. Anderson Stud. Eng. Words i. 11 Thus we have the Romance..languages of Modern Europe. And their family tree is like this: [etc.].

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 311 The comparative method thus shows us the ancestry of languages in the form of a family tree.

1989 B. Hollingworth in J. Cheshire Dial. & Educ. xix. 296 They [sc. philologists] painfully explored the family tree of languages, tracing them to their Indo-European roots.

2000 J. S. Sawyers Celtic Music (2001) i. 19 Gallego, a Romance language and a separate branch from the Celtic language on the Indo-European family tree, includes a number of Celtic root words.

3. Biology. A phylogenetic tree. Cf. tree n. Additions, phylogeny n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > evolutionary table

family tree1860

phylogeny1870

1860 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Tasmania I. p. xxii Species being with so much uniformity the ultimate and most definable group (the leaves as it were of the family tree).

1876 Nature 3 Aug. 294/1 Some of the branches of the family tree have no living representatives, and as to these we must seek for evidence as palæontology affords us.

1906 A. M. Dowd Our Common Wild Flowers xxxi. 62 If we are to think of all the plants in the world as related, we may imagine their connection to be represented by a gigantic ‘family tree’.

1931 Sci. Newslet. 20 26/1 Prof. W. D. Mathew of the University of California..drew up a family tree of the canine clan.

2010 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 9 Apr. 1 Australopithecus sediba..could be the so-called ‘muddle in the middle’ in the hominid family tree, or a transitional species.

4. Horticulture. A fruit tree in which two or more varieties (typically of apple) have been grafted on to one rootstock, and which can therefore bear multiple varieties of fruit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > produced by or used for grafting

clavec1420

grafter1600

graftlinga1618

family tree1918

bud-graft1930

1918 H. Findlay Pract. Gardening xxiii. 277 Never buy a ‘Family Tree’, so called by graft firms.

1988 Amateur Gardening 30 July 34/2 The main problem with family trees is one of vigour and therefore their aftercare.

2005 D. Squire Container Specialist 49/1 To ensure pollination (and the subsequent development of fruit) choose a ‘family tree’, where 3–4 different yet compatible varieties have been grafted onto one rootstock.

Compounds

General attributive, as family tree diagram, family tree theory, etc.

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1880 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 10 p. lxxvii This leads Schmidt to reject altogether the ordinary ‘family tree’ (Stammbaum) arrangement of Indo-European languages.

1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 83/1 Botanists have no family tree arrangement for plants.

1904 Hayfield Mower 1 165/2 Not one single Centergrade man or woman wanted to be reckoned by what he or she was. Every one would be a sprig of the past, a twig of a family-tree branch.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 318 The older family-tree theory of linguistic relationship.

1999 J. Heathcott in S. L. Linkon Teaching Working Class 113 I passed out family tree charts and asked students to list their parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles.

2007 Anthropol. Linguistics 49 207 Lingua francas can..tangle up a branching family tree diagram and greatly complicate language classification.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	family tree
释义	family treen. Brit. /ˌfam(ᵻ)lɪ ˈtriː/, /ˌfaml̩ɪ ˈtriː/, U.S. /ˌfæm(ə)li ˈtri/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: family n., tree n. Etymology: < family n. + tree n.With sense 2b compare later Stammbaum n. and its German etymon. 1. A genealogical diagram tracing the generations of a family; the relationships represented in such a diagram; lineage. Also in extended use: one's ancestors or descendants considered collectively. Cf. pedigree n. 1, tree n. 6a. In quot. 1752 with the sense: a single generation within a lineage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > degree in descent kneec1000 greec1315 generationa1387 degreea1400 descent1538 descendancy1603 remove1741 family tree1752 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. tree1297 pedigreec1425 Jesse1463 kindred's tree1605 birth brief1662 family tree1752 pedigree-stick1893 stemma1904 1752 H. ap D. Price Genuine Acct. Life & Trans. xvi. 264 His best Coat..might be but little short in Antiquity, to the Root of his third Family Tree. 1763 J. Boswell Jrnl. 25 Dec. in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 106 The family tree. Write for him name and titles and small tree of your family. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lx. 116 An English Esquire would as soon walk abroad in his grandfather's wedding suit, as suffer the family Tree to be seen in his hall. a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval (1867) i. 7 I once drew a fine family tree of my ancestors. 1884 Med. Times & Gaz. 22 Mar. 379/1 The coincidence of phthisis and rheumatic fever in family trees had been noted. 1946 A. L. Poole Obligations of Society in 12th & 13th Cent. ii. 22 The elaborate family tree of Aubrey is remarkable, and would be the envy of the modern pedigree hunter. 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 254 Now thirty-five years married, we know we found our way... We started our own family tree, branching sturdily. 1995 New Yorker 8 May 92/3 Award winners..proceeded to speed-thank their entire family tree: parents, grandparents, godparents, babies yet to be born, [etc.]. 2009 S. T. Asma On Monsters (2011) ix. 132 Waterton was born into an upper-class British family in Yorkshire, one that proudly traced its family tree back to Sir Thomas More. 2. a. figurative and in figurative context. A set of related concepts or things regarded as resembling a family tree (sense 1) in some way; a (real or imagined) diagram which groups, or traces the development of, related concepts or things. Now frequently with preceding modifying word. ΚΠ 1830 D. Webster in Niles' Weekly Reg. 6 Mar. 38/1 Spreading before us the family tree of political parties, he takes especial care to shew himself, snugly perched on a popular bough! 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 8 Mar. 4/3 Let us look to the branches. Bank expansion is one. The free use of Credits abroad another... The catalogue might be swelled to a family tree of enormous dimensions. 1931 W. C. MacLeod Origin & Hist. Politics vii. 108 A state positively belongs where it is placed in the family tree of states, or it does not. 1962 New Statesman 7 Sept. 287/1 His method is to examine the ‘Family Tree’ of anarchism, with its roots in Lao-Tse, Zeno and the Essenes. 1991 J. DeMont Citizens Irving (1992) Prol. 4 Their corporate family tree..is virtually indecipherable to outsiders: subsidiaries are owned by holding companies, which are controlled by foreign shell corporations. 2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Apr. 108/1 Somewhere in the same family tree, along with the hand-held computers and the mobile phones, sits..the remote control. b. spec. A diagram representing the relationships between specified languages; the relationships represented in such a diagram. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages > diagram representing family tree1852 Stammbaum1939 tree-diagram1965 1852 N.-Y. Q. Oct. 312 A family tree of languages, with all its ramifications in proper position and proportion, is a thing hardly to be looked for before several generations of philologists shall have been on the stage. 1897 J. M. Anderson Stud. Eng. Words i. 11 Thus we have the Romance..languages of Modern Europe. And their family tree is like this: [etc.]. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 311 The comparative method thus shows us the ancestry of languages in the form of a family tree. 1989 B. Hollingworth in J. Cheshire Dial. & Educ. xix. 296 They [sc. philologists] painfully explored the family tree of languages, tracing them to their Indo-European roots. 2000 J. S. Sawyers Celtic Music (2001) i. 19 Gallego, a Romance language and a separate branch from the Celtic language on the Indo-European family tree, includes a number of Celtic root words. 3. Biology. A phylogenetic tree. Cf. tree n. Additions, phylogeny n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > evolutionary table family tree1860 phylogeny1870 1860 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Tasmania I. p. xxii Species being with so much uniformity the ultimate and most definable group (the leaves as it were of the family tree). 1876 Nature 3 Aug. 294/1 Some of the branches of the family tree have no living representatives, and as to these we must seek for evidence as palæontology affords us. 1906 A. M. Dowd Our Common Wild Flowers xxxi. 62 If we are to think of all the plants in the world as related, we may imagine their connection to be represented by a gigantic ‘family tree’. 1931 Sci. Newslet. 20 26/1 Prof. W. D. Mathew of the University of California..drew up a family tree of the canine clan. 2010 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 9 Apr. 1 Australopithecus sediba..could be the so-called ‘muddle in the middle’ in the hominid family tree, or a transitional species. 4. Horticulture. A fruit tree in which two or more varieties (typically of apple) have been grafted on to one rootstock, and which can therefore bear multiple varieties of fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > produced by or used for grafting clavec1420 grafter1600 graftlinga1618 family tree1918 bud-graft1930 1918 H. Findlay Pract. Gardening xxiii. 277 Never buy a ‘Family Tree’, so called by graft firms. 1988 Amateur Gardening 30 July 34/2 The main problem with family trees is one of vigour and therefore their aftercare. 2005 D. Squire Container Specialist 49/1 To ensure pollination (and the subsequent development of fruit) choose a ‘family tree’, where 3–4 different yet compatible varieties have been grafted onto one rootstock. Compounds General attributive, as family tree diagram, family tree theory, etc. ΚΠ 1880 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 10 p. lxxvii This leads Schmidt to reject altogether the ordinary ‘family tree’ (Stammbaum) arrangement of Indo-European languages. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 83/1 Botanists have no family tree arrangement for plants. 1904 Hayfield Mower 1 165/2 Not one single Centergrade man or woman wanted to be reckoned by what he or she was. Every one would be a sprig of the past, a twig of a family-tree branch. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 318 The older family-tree theory of linguistic relationship. 1999 J. Heathcott in S. L. Linkon Teaching Working Class 113 I passed out family tree charts and asked students to list their parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles. 2007 Anthropol. Linguistics 49 207 Lingua francas can..tangle up a branching family tree diagram and greatly complicate language classification. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas family tree a. A diagram or table of a family, indicating its original ancestor as the root, and the various branches of descendants; in full, family tree or genealogical tree. Also figurative a family, race, stock.Porphyrian tree (Logic): see Porphyrian tree n. at Porphyrian adj.¹ and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. tree1297 pedigreec1425 Jesse1463 kindred's tree1605 birth brief1662 family tree1752 pedigree-stick1893 stemma1904 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7255 Þo smot uerst þis tre aȝen to is kunde more [i.e. natural root]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1625 Bot first a tre,..I sal sette hire [Trin. Cambr. here] of adam kin. 1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 147 Vain are their Hopes, who fancy to inherit By Trees of Pedigrees, or Fame, or Merit. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 303 Two genealogic trees. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 179 A more honourable tree does not flourish in the archives of heraldry than ours. 1858 M. Arnold Merope 865 So dies the last shoot of our royal tree! extracted from treen. < n.1752 as lemmas
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family treen.

Compounds

> as lemmas