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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.

English

Etymology

From Old French progenie, from Latin pr?geni?s, from pr?gign? (“beget”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d??ni/
• (General American) enPR: pr?j'?-n?, IPA^(key): /?p??d??ni/
• Hyphenation: prog?e?ny

Noun

progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)

1. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
3. (countable, figuratively) A result of a creative effort.

Synonyms

• (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring

Related terms

• progenitor

Translations

Anagrams

• pyrogen