[mass noun]the fact of being or of being designated the child of a particular parent or parents 为人子女 relationships based on ties of filiation as opposed to marriage. 建立在亲子关系而非婚姻基础上的关系。 ■the manner in which a thing is related to another from which it is derived or descended in some respect 由来,起源;来历 the filiation of Old Norse manuscripts. 古挪威人手稿的来历。 ■[count noun]a branch of a society or language (团体、语言的)分支,派别
语源
late Middle English: from French, from ecclesiastical and medieval Latin filiatio(n-), from Latin filius 'son', filia 'daughter'