auncestre

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === ancestre, auncetere auncestor (Late Middle English); awncetyr (Promptorium Parvulorum) === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman auncestre, nominative of auncessour (see auncessour), from Latin antecessor, a compound of ante +‎ cedo +‎ -tor; thus a doublet of antecessour and auncessour. First attested in c. 1300. Forms such as /a(u̯)nˈsɛtrə/ reflect either dissimilatory loss of /s/ or borrowing of Romance forms with preconsonantal loss of /s/. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a(u̯)nˈsɛstrə/, /a(u̯)nˈsɛtrə/, /-ər/ IPA(key): /ˈa(u̯)nsɛstər/, /ˈa(u̯)nsɛtər/, /-rə/ (with stress shift) === Noun === auncestre (plural auncestres) An ancestor or progenitor; someone that a person is descended from. (rare) A predecessor; an officeholder preceding a person. ==== Related terms ==== antecessour auncessour auncestrie ==== Descendants ==== English: ancestor Middle Scots: auncester (hapax) ==== References ==== “auncestre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “ancestor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.