antepassado

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From antepassar +‎ -ado. Compare Spanish antepasado and Catalan avantpassat. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -adu Hyphenation: an‧te‧pas‧sa‧do === Noun === antepassado m (plural antepassados, feminine antepassada, feminine plural antepassadas) (usually in the plural) ancestor, forefather, primogenitor Synonym: ancestral === Participle === antepassado (feminine antepassada, masculine plural antepassados, feminine plural antepassadas) past participle of antepassar === Further reading === “antepassado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “antepassado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026