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progenitor
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural progenitors
plural progenitors
Learner's definition of PROGENITOR
[count]
1
formal
a : someone who first thinks of or does something : a person who begins something先驱；创始人
- the progenitors of modern art现代艺术的先驱们
b : something that is a model for something else : something that begins the development of something else前身；始祖
- a mechanical progenitor [=precursor] of the modern computer现代计算机的机械前身
2
biology : a person or animal in the past that is related to a person or animal living now : ancestor（人或动物的）祖先
- wild cats that were the progenitors of the house cat作为家猫祖先的野猫
progenitor
noun
pro·gen·i·tor prō-ˈje-nə-tər 
prə-
Example Sentences
the progenitors of modern art wild cats that were the progenitors of the house cat
Recent Examples on the Web If horsepox really is the progenitor of vaccinia, how did that happen? 
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022 But the crucial progenitor was Charley Patton, a boastful, lusty, sometimes violent man who played guitar and sang with alarming ferocity. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 The earliest progenitor of the internet was ARPANET, built in 1969 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post, 24 June 2022 Much of that money was used to fund the Confidence Foundation, a charity still active today that is named for the ship that brought family progenitor Thomas Whittier from England to New England in 1638. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022 Cavaliere cites research which found that eating blueberries regularly led to an increase in human muscle progenitor cells, as well as a decrease in oxidative stress in the muscles. Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 9 July 2022 The fact that one of the progenitor black holes weighs in at 85 solar masses is also highly unusual since this is at odds with current models of stellar evolution. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022 Low to the ground and with a wide track, the hypercar’s carbon-fiber body retains its progenitor’s curvaceous shape, including giant fenders in the front and rear. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 June 2022 Stanley Kaplan was the progenitor of the whole education industry in a real sense. Rod Berger, Forbes, 7 June 2022 See More
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022 But the crucial progenitor was Charley Patton, a boastful, lusty, sometimes violent man who played guitar and sang with alarming ferocity. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 The earliest progenitor of the internet was ARPANET, built in 1969 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post, 24 June 2022 Much of that money was used to fund the Confidence Foundation, a charity still active today that is named for the ship that brought family progenitor Thomas Whittier from England to New England in 1638. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022 Cavaliere cites research which found that eating blueberries regularly led to an increase in human muscle progenitor cells, as well as a decrease in oxidative stress in the muscles. Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 9 July 2022 The fact that one of the progenitor black holes weighs in at 85 solar masses is also highly unusual since this is at odds with current models of stellar evolution. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022 Low to the ground and with a wide track, the hypercar’s carbon-fiber body retains its progenitor’s curvaceous shape, including giant fenders in the front and rear. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 June 2022 Stanley Kaplan was the progenitor of the whole education industry in a real sense. Rod Berger, Forbes, 7 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English progenitour, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin prōgenitor "individual from whom a person or family is descended, ancestor," agentive derivative of prōgignere "to produce as offspring, bring into being, give rise to" (from prō- pro- entry 2 + gignere "to bring into being, beget, give birth to"), after genitor "father, parent, originator," going back to Indo-European *ǵenh1- "engender, beget" + *-tor/*-tōr, agent suffix, from which also Greek genétōr "father, begetter, ancestor," Sanskrit janitar-, janitá "father, progenitor" — more at kin entry 1
Note: Alternatively genitor has been explained as a new formation based on genitus, past participle of gignere. The older and still somewhat more attractive view sees genitus as the new formation, based on the perfect genuī or on genitor itself, after the connection with the original verbal adjective (g)nātus (going back to zero-grade *ǵn̥h1-to-) became weakened.
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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