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Etymology [edit]
Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor one who goes before; the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin accusative antecessorem, from antecedo (“to go before”); ante (“before”) + cedo (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (US) IPA: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/, /ˈæn.sɛs.toɹ/
ancestor (plural ancestors)
- One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
- An earlier type; a progenitor
- This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
- (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
- 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, BBC Sport:
- The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
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one from whom a person is descended
- Arabic: سلف (ar) (sálaf) m
- Armenian: նախնի (hy) (naxni), նախահայր (hy) (naxahayr)
- Belarusian: продак (be) (pródak) m
- Bulgarian: прародител (bg) (prarodítel) m, праотец (bg) (praotéc) m
- Catalan: avantpassat m
- Chamicuro: ka'nil sheye
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 祖先 (cmn) (zǔxiān)
- Cantonese: 祖先 (jou2 sin1)
- Crimean Tatar: ecdat
- Czech: předek (cs) m
- Dutch: voorouder (nl) m
- Ewe: tɔgbui m
- Finnish: esi-isä (fi), esivanhemmat (fi) pl
- French: ancêtre (fr)
- German: Vorfahr (de) m, Ahne (de) m, Ahnin (de) f
- Greek: πρόγονος (el) (prógonos) m, προπάτορας (el) (propátoras) m
- Hungarian: ős (hu), előd (hu), felmenő (hu)
- Ido: ancestro (io)
- Indonesian: leluhur (id)
- Irish: sinsear (ga) m, sinsearach (ga) m
- Italian: ascendente (it), antenato (it)
- Japanese: 先祖 (ja) (せんぞ, senzo), 祖先 (ja) (ぞせん, sosen)
- Jèrriais: anchêtre m and f
- Korean: 조상 (ko) (josang) (祖先 (ko))
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- Kurdish:
- Sorani: با وباپیر (ku) (ba u bapír)
- Latin: progenitor (la) m, progenitrix (la) f
- Latvian: sencis (lv) m, sence (lv) f
- Macedonian: предок (mk) (prédok) m
- Malay: nenek moyang (ms), leluhur (ms)
- Polish: przodek (pl) m
- Portuguese: ancestral (pt) m and f
- Romanian: strămoș (ro) m
- Russian: предок (ru) (prédok), прародитель (ru) (prarodítelʹ) m, пращур (ru) (práščur) m, праотец (ru) (praotéc) m
- Scottish Gaelic: sinnsear m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: предак (sh) m, праотац (sh) m, претка (sh) f, предкиња (sh) f, прамајка (sh) f, прародитељ (sh) m
- Roman: predak (sh) m, praotac (sh) m, pretka (sh) f, predkinja (sh) f, pramajka (sh) f, praroditelj (sh) m
- Sinhalese: මුතුන් මිත්තෝ (si) (mutun mittō)
- Slovak: predok (sk) m
- Slovene: prednik (sl) m, prednica (sl) f
- Spanish: ancestro (es) m, antepasado (es)
- Swedish: förfader (sv) c
- Tok Pisin: tambaran (tpi), tumbuna (tpi)
- Turkish: ata (tr)
- Ukrainian: предок (uk) (prédok) m
- Vietnamese: tổ tiên (vi) (祖先 (vi))
- Volapük: (male or female) büröletan (vo), (male) hibüröletan (vo), (female) jibüröletan (vo)
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