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   filiation

   /ˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the fact of being the child of a particular parent or parents: "relationships based on ties of filiation as opposed to marriage"
   • ▪ the fact of being descended or derived from something: "the filiation of many of his ideas from those developed by Carpenter"
   • ▪ the relation of one thing to another from which it is derived or descended in some respect: "the filiation of Old Norse manuscripts"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from French, from ecclesiastical and medieval Latin filiatio(n-), from Latin filius ‘son’, filia ‘daughter’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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