different between ancestor vs concestor

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)

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.
2. An earlier type; a progenitor

3. (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
4. (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
5. (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)

1. (transitive) To be an ancestor of.

Anagrams

• Canteros, Conatser, carstone, enactors, entosarc, sarconet, sortance

English

Etymology

Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 2004 in his book The Ancestor's Tale.

Noun

concestor (plural concestors)

1. (biology, uncommon) The last common ancestor, especially of several different species.

   Synonym: cenancestor

References

• Dawkins, Richard (2004) The Ancestor's Tale p.7 "In a backward chronology, the ancestors of any set of species must eventually meet at a particular geologic moment... the last common ancestor that they all share, what I shall call their "Concestor""

Anagrams

• concertos