English-Italian translations for ancestry

antenatiIl grande scrittore argentino Jorge Luis Borges era solito definirsi un europeo esiliato, alludendo agli antenati europei di gran parte della popolazione del nostro continente americano. The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges used to say that he was an exiled European, alluding to the European ancestry of a large proportion of the population of our American continent.
ascendenzaLa risoluzione fondamentale si limita ai crimini perpetrati sulla base della razza, del colore della pelle, della religione, dell'ascendenza o dell'origine nazionale o etnica. The basic resolution limits itself to crimes perpetrated on the basis of race, skin colour, religion, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison

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