ancestor

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈæn.sɛs.tə/    美 /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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; a forebear.
    — Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
  2. An earlier type; a progenitor.
    — This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
  3. One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
  4. One who had the same role or function in former times. figuratively
    — 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.
  5. A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
动词 v.
  1. To be an ancestor of. transitive
    — Her own grandfather had been a Virginian, a descendant of Pocahontas, of course, Pocahontas having been created by Divine Providence for the specific purpose of ancestoring Virginians.

词形变化

ancestors plural ancestour alternative,obsolete auncestor alternative,obsolete auncestour alternative,obsolete ancestors present,singular,third-person ancestoring participle,present ancestored participle,past ancestored past ancestour alternative,obsolete auncestor alternative,obsolete auncestour alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
ancestor antecedent ascendant ascendent forerunner progenitor
反义词
descendant afterbear
上位词
predecessor relative
下位词
parent father mother grandparent grandfather grandmother great-grandparent great-grandfather great-grandmother great-great-grandparent great-great-grandfather great-great-grandmother
衍生词
ancestorhood ancestorial ancestorism ancestorship ancestor spirit ancestor worship ancestrula ancestry apical ancestor cenancestor common ancestor grandancestor grandcestor last universal ancestor last universal common ancestor proto-ancestor protoancestor trancestor ur-ancestor

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Latin ante
Latin ante-
Proto-Italic *kezdō
Latin cedo
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin antecessor
Anglo-Norman auncestrebor.
Middle English auncestre
English ancestor
From 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 antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Latin ante
Latin ante-
Proto-Italic *kezdō
Latin cedo
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin antecessor
Anglo-Norman auncestrebor.
Middle English auncestre
English ancestor
From 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 antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
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