Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ancestor
Participle: ancestored
Gerund: ancestoring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ancestor |
| you | ancestor |
| he;she;it | ancestors |
| we | ancestor |
| you | ancestor |
| they | ancestor |
Perfect
| I | have ancestored |
| you | have ancestored |
| he;she;it | has ancestored |
| we | have ancestored |
| you | have ancestored |
| they | have ancestored |
Past
| I | ancestored |
| you | ancestored |
| he;she;it | ancestored |
| we | ancestored |
| you | ancestored |
| they | ancestored |
Pluperfect
| I | had ancestored |
| you | had ancestored |
| he;she;it | had ancestored |
| we | had ancestored |
| you | had ancestored |
| they | had ancestored |
Future
| I | will ancestor |
| you | will ancestor |
| he;she;it | will ancestor |
| we | will ancestor |
| you | will ancestor |
| they | will ancestor |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ancestored |
| you | will have ancestored |
| he;she;it | will have ancestored |
| we | will have ancestored |
| you | will have ancestored |
| they | will have ancestored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ancestor |
| you | ancestor |
| he;she;it | ancestor |
| we | ancestor |
| you | ancestor |
| they | ancestor |
Perfect
| I | have ancestored |
| you | have ancestored |
| he;she;it | have ancestored |
| we | have ancestored |
| you | have ancestored |
| they | have ancestored |
Imperfect
| I | ancestored |
| you | ancestored |
| he;she;it | ancestored |
| we | ancestored |
| you | ancestored |
| they | ancestored |
Pluperfect
| I | had ancestored |
| you | had ancestored |
| he;she;it | had ancestored |
| we | had ancestored |
| you | had ancestored |
| they | had ancestored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ancestor |
| you | would ancestor |
| he;she;it | would ancestor |
| we | would ancestor |
| you | would ancestor |
| they | would ancestor |
Perfect
| I | would have ancestored |
| you | would have ancestored |
| he;she;it | would have ancestored |
| we | would have ancestored |
| you | would have ancestored |
| they | would have ancestored |
Imperative
| you | ancestor |
| we | Let's ancestor |
| you | ancestor |
Verbs conjugated like 'ancestor'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ancestor'
accustom,
anchor,
cessor,
enfester,
incest,
uncensor,
uncenter,
unpastor,
unrestore,
accent,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
5. Proto-Indo-European *-i
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
7. Proto-Italic *anti
8. Latin ante
9. Latin ante-
10. Latin cedo
11. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
12. Proto-Italic *-tōr
13. Latin -tor
14. Latin antecessor
15. Anglo-Norman auncestrebor.
16. Middle English auncestre
17. English ancestor
18. From Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor (“one who goes before”); the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.
Sample Sentences
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Her own grandfather had been a Virginian, a descendant of Pocahontas, of course, Pocahontas having been created by Divine Providence for the specific purpose of ancestoring Virginians. [1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights, page 9:]
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But he could have completed it: Lucas Quintus Carothers McCaslin Beauchamp. Last surviving sone and child of Tomey's Terrel and Tennie Beauchamp. March 17, 1874 except that there was no need: not Lucius Quintus &c &c &c, but Lucas Quintus, not refusing to be called Lucius, because he simply eliminated that word from the name; not denying, declining the name itself, because he used three quarters of it; but simply taking the name and changing, altering it, making it no longer the white man's but his own , by himself composed, himself selfprogenitive and nominate, by himself ancestored, as, for all the old ledgers recorded to the contrary, old Carothers himself was [1942, William Faulkner, “The Bear”, in Go down, Moses: and other stories, page 281:]
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The human population of this earth is descended from a most adaptable population, that which originated living matter and then proceeded through continuous specific change to become the population that ancestored man. [2006, Richard T. Hull, Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1951-1960:]
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How, that is, could ancestoring Elizabeth become a relational property of James's, when there was, when Elizabeth began to exist, no James to have this property? [2010, Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, →ISBN, page 171:]