different between forbear vs progenitor

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English forberen, from Old English forberan (“to forbear, abstain from, refrain; suffer, endure, tolerate, humor; restrain; do without”), from Proto-Germanic *fraberan? (“to hold back, endure”); equivalent to for- +? bear. Cognate with Old Frisian forbera (“to forfeit”), Middle High German verbërn (“to have not; abstain; refrain from; avoid”) (Cimbrian forbèeran), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (frabairan, “to endure”).

Alternative forms

• forebear (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f???b??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

forbear (third-person singular simple present forbears, present participle forbearing, simple past forbore, past participle forborne or (archaic) forborn)

1. (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
2. (intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
3. (intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
4. (intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.

   • The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear.

Derived terms

• forbearance
• forbearant
• forbearer
• forbearing
• forbearingly

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??.b??/

Noun

forbear (plural forbears)

1. Alternative spelling of forebear
   • [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.

     Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]

   • [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [2]

     One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

Anagrams

• forbare

English

Alternative forms

• progenitour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French progeniteur (Modern French progéniteur), from Latin progenitor, from progenitus, perfect participle of progignere (“to beget”), itself from pro- (“forth”) + gignere (“to beget”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????d??n.?.t?/, /p???d??n.?.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?o??d??n.?.t?/, /p???d??n.?.t?/

Noun

progenitor (plural progenitors)

1. A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.

   Synonyms: ancestor, forefather

   Coordinate terms: progenitrix, foremother

2. An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.

3. (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
4. (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.

5. (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
6. A founder.

Derived terms

• legendary progenitor

Related terms

• progeny

Translations

Further reading

• progenitor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• troopering

Latin

Etymology

From pro- +? genitor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro???e.ni.tor/, [p?o????n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro?d??e.ni.tor/, [p???d????nit??r]

Noun

pr?genitor m (genitive pr?genit?ris); third declension

1. (rare) ancestor, progenitor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

• pr?genitr?x

Descendants

References

• progenitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• progenitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• progenitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pr?genitor.

Noun

progenitor m (plural progenitores, feminine progenitora, feminine plural progenitoras)

1. progenitor (any of a person’s direct ancestors)
2. (figuratively) progenitor (a predecessor of something)

Further reading

• “progenitor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pr?genitor.

Noun

progenitor m (plural progenitores, feminine progenitora, feminine plural progenitoras)

1. progenitor

Further reading

• “progenitor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.