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primogenitor|praɪməʊˈdʒɛnɪtə(r)|
[a. med.L. prīmōgenitor (1361 in Du Cange), f. L. prīmō adv., at first, first + genitor begetter, genitor, after L. prīmōgenitus; so OF. primogeniteur (1340 in Godef.).]
First parent, earliest ancestor; loosely, ancestor, forefather, progenitor.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 181 If your primogenitors be not belied, the generall smutch you have, was once of a deeper black, when they came from Mauritania into Spain. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 211 The supposition of our being punished for the offence of our primogenitor. 1824Mirror III. 402/2 The male descendants of our great primogenitor. 1888Hasluck Model Engin. Handybk. (1900) 2 A model of this, the primogenitor of the modern steam-engine, can be bought..for one penny.
Hence primoˈgenitrix, a first female ancestor.
1875M. Collins Fr. Midnight to Midn. III. xii. 202 Fluent as that ‘affable archangel’ who delighted our primogenitrix. |