| Front | primogenitor \pry-moe-JEN-i-tuhr\ |
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| Back | noun 1. The earliest ancestor. 2. An ancestor or a forefather. [Late Latin primogenitor : Latin primo, at first (from primus, first.) + Latin genitor, begetter, from gignere, genit-, to beget.] "Primogeniture! I remembered that, from History 1A. But to hear of this law in reality, in this century, struck me. How could they give all this to one child, leaving the other three without?" - Marjorie Leet Ford; The Diary of an American Au Pair; Anchor Books; 2011. |
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