consanguinity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   relationship by descent from a common ancestor; blood kinship

   The law prohibited marriage within certain degrees of consanguinity.

From Middle English consanguinite, through Old French from Latin consanguinitas, 'blood relationship.' The Latin combines con-, 'together,' with sanguis, 'blood,' and names kinship through shared ancestry rather than relationship by marriage.

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