Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The earliest ancestor.
- n. An ancestor or forebear.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A forefather; an ancestor.
Wiktionary
- n. An initial ancestor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The first ancestor; a forefather.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an ancestor in the direct line
Etymologies
- Late Latin prīmōgenitor : Latin prīmō, at first (from prīmus, first; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + Latin genitor, begetter (from genitus, past participle of gignere, to beget; see genə- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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