ancestor

Etymology
,, ; the first forms from (modern French ), from the  nominative ; the last form from , from Latin , accusative of , from , from. See, and compare with.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) An earlier type; a progenitor
 * 3)  One from whom an estate has descended;&mdash;the correlative of heir.
 * 1)  One from whom an estate has descended;&mdash;the correlative of heir.
 * 1)  One from whom an estate has descended;&mdash;the correlative of heir.


 * 1)  One who had the same role or function in former times.
 * 2)  A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
 * 1)  A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.

Usage notes

 * There is a rare feminine form

Translations

 * Acehnese: indatu
 * Afrikaans: voorouer
 * Arabic: سَلَف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: ata-baba,
 * Bashkir: ата-баба
 * Belarusian: про́дак
 * Breton: gourdad
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:, , antecessor
 * Chamicuro: ka'nil sheye
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 祖先
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: hendas
 * Crimean Tatar: ecdat
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forfader, stamfader
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: tɔgbui
 * Farefare: sɔa, yaaba
 * Faroese: forfaðir
 * Finnish:, esivanhempi
 * French:
 * Galician: devanceiro,, antenado,
 * Georgian: წინაპარი
 * German:, , , , , , , , , , Stammmutter, Familiengründer
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌶𐌰
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πρόγονος, γενέτης
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: sinsear, sinsearach
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: با و باپیر
 * Lao: ບັນພະບຸລຸດ, ບັນພະບູລຸດ
 * Latin: progenitor, progenitrix,, ava
 * Latvian: sencis, sence
 * Lithuanian: protėvis
 * Macedonian: предок
 * Malay: nenek moyang,
 * Maore Comorian: mudzaɗe
 * Maori: kohika, kahika, whātua, tīpuna, tūpuna, kauwheke, heinga, pūtake
 * Marathi:
 * Moore: yaaba
 * Norman: anchêtre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: forfar, forfader, stamfar
 * Occitan: ancessor
 * Old English: ieldra
 * Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰀
 * Plautdietsch: Väavoda
 * Polish:, , , antenatka
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sinnsear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: предак, праотац, претка, предкиња, прамајка, прародитељ
 * Roman:, , , predkinja, ,
 * Sinhalese: මුතුන් මිත්තෝ
 * Slovak: predok
 * Slovene:, prédnica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: awo
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, บรรพชน, , บรรพสตรี
 * Tok Pisin: tambaran, tumbuna
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (祖先)
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Welsh:, hynafiad,
 * Yiddish: אָבֿ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: sinsear, sinsearach
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: progenitor, progenitrix
 * Latvian: sencis, sence
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: forfar, forfader
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: predok
 * Slovene:


 * Japanese:

Verb

 * 1)  To be an ancestor of.