Толковый словарь английского языка - ancestor
Ancestor
ancestor
noun Etymology: Middle English ancestre, from Anglo-French, from Latin antecessor predecessor, from antecedere to go before, from ante+ cedere to go Date: 13th century 1. one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent, forefather 2, forerunner , prototype , a progenitor of a more recent or existing species or group
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n. (fem. ancestress) 1 any (esp. remote) person from whom one is descended. 2 an early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved. 3 an early prototype or forerunner (ancestor of the computer). Etymology: ME f. OF ancestre f. L antecessor -oris f. antecedere (as ANTE-, cedere cess- go) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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