English-Finnish translations for progenitor

• edeltäjä
• esi-isä
• isä
  Mikael Agricola, suomen kirjakielen ja kirjallisuuden isä
• kantaisä

Definition of progenitor

• A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors
• An individual from whom one or more people are descended
• An ancestral form of a species
• Someone who originates something

Examples

• Abraham alias Ibrahim is the progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples
• ARPANET was the progenitor of the Internet
• Are neural progenitor cells infected by Zika virus?

Related words

• progeniture
• progenitress
• progenitrix
• progenitor cell