Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The earliest ancestor.
  • noun An ancestor or forebear.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A forefather; an ancestor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The first ancestor; a forefather.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An initial ancestor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an ancestor in the direct line

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin prīmōgenitor : Latin prīmō, at first (from prīmus, first; see per in Indo-European roots) + Latin genitor, begetter (from genitus, past participle of gignere, to beget; see genə- in Indo-European roots).]

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