詞語:ancestor
ancestor是什麼意思
簡明英漢詞典
ancestor
[5AnsistE]
n.
祖先, 祖宗
美國傳統詞典[雙解]
ancestor
an.ces.tor
AHD:[2n「sμs」t…r]
D.J.[6#n7sest*]
K.K.[6#n7sWst+]
n.(名詞)
(1)A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.
祖先,祖宗:繁衍後代的人,特別是遠於祖父輩;前輩
(2)A forerunner or predecessor.
前人,先驅:先行者或先驅
(3)Law The person from whom an estate has been inherited.
【法律】 被繼承人:一個人,從他那裡財產可被繼承
(4)Biology The actual or hypothetical organism or stock from which later kinds evolved.
【生物學】 物種原形:演化成後來各物種的真實存在的或假設的有機物
語源
(1)Middle English auncestre
中古英語 auncestre
(2)from Old French
源自 古法語
(3)from Latin antecessor [predecessor]
源自 拉丁語 antecessor [先驅]
(4)from antecessus [past participle of] antec?dere [to precede]
源自 antecessus [] antec?dere的過去分詞 [在…之前]
(5)ante- [ante-]
ante- [前綴,表示「在…之前」]
(6)c?e [to go] * see ked-
c?e [走] *參見 ked-
參考詞彙
(1)ancestor, forebear, forefather, progenitor
(2)The central meaning shared by these nouns is 「a person from whom one is descended」:
這些名詞所共有的中心意思是「繁衍出後代的人」:
ancestors who were farmers;
祖輩是農民;
an island once owned by his forebears;
曾被他的前輩佔有的島嶼;
methods as old as our forefathers;
象祖輩一樣的陳舊方法;
the wisdom of our progenitors. descendant
祖先的智慧 descendant
現代英漢詞典
ancestor
[5AnsEstE(r)]
n.
祖先 (女性為: ancestrees)
My ancestors came from Italian.
我的祖先是意大利人。
現代英漢綜合大辭典
ancestor
[5AnsistE]
n.
(1)祖先, 祖宗
(2)最初之物; 起源
(3)始祖
(4)【生】原種
(5)【律】被繼承人
One of my ancestors was a great scholar.
我的祖先當中有一位是偉大的學者。
習慣用語
be one's own ancestor
[罕]自己當始祖(指不靠父祖餘蔭, 自立特殊功勳)
用法詞典
ancestor
來自古法語ancestre