lineage

The word from classical Arabic kunyah derived, in Hispanic Arabic, into alkúnya. The etymological evolution of the concept continued in our language and thus the concept of lineage, which refers to lineage, prosapia, ancestry, or ancestry of a person.

The notion is used above all with respect to subjects belonging to the nobility or at families more rich and traditional of a region. Thus, a family is said to have lineage when its ascendants are wealthy individuals or are part of the highest and most powerful class.

Take the case of a 20-year-old whose father is a millionaire who owns thousands of hectares of countryside. His grandfather was also a very wealthy landowner, while his great-grandfather was the founder of the city where the family developed. All these antecedents allow to affirm that the young man is a boy of lineage.

Sometimes the idea of ​​ancestry is also applied to sets of people or even to areas or regions. A lineage football team, for example, is one who, throughout its history, has won numerous titles. Therefore, for the players, being part of their squad is a privilege.

In this way, we can determine that FC Barcelona is a football team of rank because it has an impressive track record. Specifically, it has 21 League championships, 28 Spanish Cups, 5 European Cups, 5 European Super Cups, 3 Club World Cups ... Hence, it is precisely a pride for any player to be part of that group and even more sharing a dressing room with great players in the history of current football such as Messi, Luis Suárez, Neymar, Busquets and Andrés Iniesta.

A neighborhood of alcurnia, on the other hand, it has inhabitants of great purchasing power. The houses, therefore, are usually very luxurious. In addition, high-end cars are often seen on the streets of the Alcurnia neighborhood.

It is important to mention that the lineage is inherited, since it comes from the past. If a lower class person wins the lottery and becomes a millionaire, they will become part of the upper class because of their wealth, but they will still have no lineage.

In numerous cultural works we find the term ancestry or its synonym, high birth, which we are now addressing. This would be the case of the famous song “Dama, dama”, which the artist Cecilia sang in the decade of the 70s. In 1972, more precisely, it was when this single was published, composed by the singer, which was part of her first album entitled "Cecilia".

It is a song that is considered one of the best that he made and it came to be a direct and real criticism of certain habits and customs that women of high society in Madrid maintained. It has been covered numerous times by artists of the stature of Raphael.

To all the above we have to add that Alcurnia is also the name of a company specializing in the manufacture of canned fruits, specifically apricots and peaches. It is based in the Murcian town of Molinas de Segura (Spain) and was founded in 1965 by José María García Gomáriz.