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ancestor
English
Alternative forms
- ancestour (obsolete)
- auncestor (obsolete)
- auncestour (obsolete)
Etymology
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 accusative antecessorem, from antecedo (“to go before”); ante (“before”) + cedo (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æn.s?s.t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æn.s?s.t?/
- Hyphenation: an?ces?tor
Noun
ancestor (plural ancestors)
- 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
- (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
- (linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
Usage notes
- There is a rare feminine form ancestress
Synonyms
- (person from whom one is descended): forebear, fore-elder, forefather
- (previous fulfiller of a role or duty): predecessor
- (originating word): reflex, source, origin
Antonyms
- descendant
- afterbear
Derived terms
- cenancestor
- trancestor
- grandcestor
- ancestry
Translations
Verb
ancestor (third-person singular simple present ancestors, present participle ancestoring, simple past and past participle ancestored)
- (transitive) To be an ancestor of.
Anagrams
- Canteros, Conatser, carstone, enactors, entosarc, sarconet, sortance
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author
English
Alternative forms
- authour (obsolete)
- auctor (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from auge? (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in English autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??.??/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??.??/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???.t??/
- Rhymes: -????(r)
- Hyphenation: au?thor
Noun
author (plural authors)
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language Preface
- The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
- (with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- (obsolete, criminal law) Principal.
- (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.
- 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus
- Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd[sic] not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]
- 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus
Synonyms
- (creator of a work): bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writer
Derived terms
- authoress, authress
- author of life
Related terms
- authorization or authorisation
- authority
- authorship
- auteur
Translations
Verb
author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)
- (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.
Derived terms
- authorable
Translations
Anagrams
- Hotaru
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?au?.t?or/, [?äu?t???r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?au?.tor/, [???u?t??r]
Noun
author m (genitive auth?ris); third declension
- (proscribed) Alternative form of auctor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- author in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
auctor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press - auctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 184f.
Middle English
Noun
author
- Alternative form of auctour
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