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Definition of parentage : Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.

Synonyms:

giving birth, crinkle, decline, parenthood, declension, short letter, broth, beginning, source, demarcation, precede, declivity, origination, farm animal, stock certificate, family, declination, heredity, dividing line, assembly line, parturition, gillyflower, course, breed, line of merchandise, kin, phone line, pedigree, rip, descent, furrow, melodic line, inception, bloodline, subscriber line, paternity, personal line of credit, strain, agate line, line of credit, nativity, melody, line, communication channel, wrinkle, argumentation, stock, filiation, production line, blood line, caudex, personal credit line, ocellus, linage, profligate, rail line, inventory, crease, note, extraction, cable, line of reasoning, logical argument, business line, store, line of business, contrast, birthing, line of work, tune, transmission line, gunstock, origin, simple eye, ancestry, line of descent, birth, roue, product line, fall, blood, stemma, channel, melodic phrase, billet, business, job, rakehell, downslope, telephone line, argument, pipeline, rake, nascency, credit line, genealogy, telephone circuit, fund, railway line, root, livestock, neckcloth, lineage, seam, air, nascence, derivation, line of products, bank line, occupation, rootage

Usage examples:

• She saw a slender girl, in a plain black frock, with a sensitive, pale face, luminous, sad, dark eyes, and a mass of dark, waving hair- Mary Isona, of Italian parentage, a little music teacher, whose only relation to the world Theodore Vellan lived in was professional. - "Grey Roses", Henry Harland.
• You and I, outside of his father and mother, are the only ones living that know of his parentage. - "The Tides of Barnegat", F. Hopkinson Smith.
• All that was sordid about her parentage she has cast off. - "The Man from Home", Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.