ródowego

Ródowego is the genitive singular form of the Polish adjective rodowy, which means ancestral, hereditary, or related to a family lineage. The base noun is ród, meaning a person’s family, line, or clan. The term is used to characterize things that are passed down through generations or tied to a particular family line.

In usage, rodowy describes objects, traditions, or attributes associated with a specific kin group. It is common in genealogical, heraldic, and historical contexts. Typical collocations include phrases such as majątek rodowy (ancestral estate), linia rodowa (family line), i herb rodowy (coat of arms associated with a family). The word helps distinguish lineage-specific inheritance or culture from more general, non-family-related phenomena. In modern speech, rodowy is most often encountered in formal or scholarly prose.

Grammatically, rodowy functions as an adjective that inflects for gender, number, and case, and its genitive singular form is rodowego, used when the noun it modifies requires a genitive ending. The related noun rodowód denotes ancestry or pedigree and is closely connected in meaning to rodowy, though rodowód emphasizes the genealogical record itself rather than the characteristics of the lineage.

Origin and related terms: rodowy derives from ród (lineage) and is linked to other hereditary vocabulary such as rodowód and herb rodowy. While not everyday speech for many speakers, the term remains common in discussions of nobility, heraldry, and family history.

See also: ród, rodowód, linia rodowa, majątek rodowy, herb rodowy, dziedziczenie.