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Etymology
Old English ancestre, auncestre, also ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre, French ancêtre, from the Latin nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin acc. antecessorem, from antecedere to go before; ante before + cedere to go. See Cede, and compare with Antecessor.

Pronunciation
IPA: WEAE /�æn.s�s.t�/ or /-toɹ/

Noun
en-noun (female ancestress)

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 fore father.
2. (Biology) An earlier type; a progenitor

#: This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

1. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

Translations
trans-top|one from whom a person is descended
Catalan avantpassat m
Chinese:
*Mandarin �� (zŭ xi�n)
*Cantonese �� (jou2 sin1)
Czech: p�edek m
Ewe: t�gbui m
Finnish: esi-isä
German: Ahne m, Ahnin f
Korean: 조� (josang)
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Japanese: �� (senzo)
Russian: п�едок (pr'édok)
Scottish Gaelic: sinnsear m
Serbian: predak m, praotac m, pretka f, predkinja f, pramajka m, praroditelj
Slovene: prednik m, prednica f
Slovak: predok m
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trans-top|an earlier type
Finnish: esi-isä
Russian: п�едок (pr'édok)
trans-mid
Slovene: prednik m
Slovak: predok m
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