English-Italian translations for ancestor

• abiatico
• antenato
  Come diceva un illustre antenato: “Il si giudica quando lo si mangia”. As an illustrious ancestor used to say: ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’.
  Tutti siamo immigrati e, se non in prima persona, lo siamo in virtù di qualche familiare o antenato. We are all immigrants, if not ourselves personally, then through one of our relations or ancestors.
• ascendente
• avo
• progenitore

Definition of ancestor

• 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
• An earlier type; a progenitor
• One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir
• One who had the same role or function in former times
• To be an ancestor of

Examples

• This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse

Related words

• ancestors
• cenancestor
• ancestorism
• ancestor worship
• common ancestor
• apical ancestor
• first ancestor
• last common ancestor
• last universal ancestor