ANCESTOR: значение слова

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