filiation
- noun
- /ˌfɪliˈeɪʃən/
- Formal
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filiación
- The court established filiation, confirming the child's rights to inheritance from their biological parents.
- line of filiation
- complementary line of filiation
- relationship of filiation
Examples
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Orphans and refugees complicate filiation, since the former are reared without a natural family and the latter are reared outside of their natural home.
Academic text (2004) -
In legal usage, it refers to agnatic and uterine relations of filiation, and hence, one could argue, "kinship" in the restricted sense of "kinship and alliance" (Conte 1991:99f).
Academic text (2007) -
So you know, you get all the man's titles, his name, often filiation, you know, his parent, his parents and so on.
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Thus, filiation and affiliation produce authority in a variety of different ways, some enhancing life, others limiting it.
Academic text (2004) -
In his major statement on filiation and affiliation (in The World, the Text, and the Critic), Said discusses the relationship between filiation and affiliation in order to understand European high modernism.
Academic text (2004) -
Filiation refers to the legal recognition of the relationship between a child and their parents.
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In family law, filiation is crucial for determining child support obligations and parental rights.
Synonyms
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1.6
A family connection by blood, marriage, or adoption
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5.3
Who a person's mother and father are and their family background
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1.0
A connection between people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Filiation comes from an old Latin word filius ('son') and filia ('daughter'), so it originally named the bond of being someone's child. That's why filiation means the recognized or legal relationship between a child and their parents.