progeneratorn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtə/, U.S. /prəˈdʒɛnəˌreɪdər/, /proʊˈdʒɛnəˌreɪdər/ The source or original from which something is derived; a forebear or progenitor (chiefly figurative).
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]
welleOE
mothereOE
ordeOE
wellspringeOE
fathereOE
headeOE
oreOE
wellspringOE
rootc1175
morea1200
beginningc1200
head wella1325
sourcec1374
principlea1382
risinga1382
springinga1382
fountain14..
springerc1410
nativity?a1425
racinea1425
spring1435
headspring?a1439
seminaryc1440
originationc1443
spring wellc1450
sourdre1477
primordialc1487
naissance1490
wellhead?1492
offspringa1500
conduit-head1517
damc1540
springhead1547
principium1550
mint1555
principal1555
centre1557
head fountain1563
parentage1581
rise1589
spawna1591
fount1594
parent1597
taproot1601
origin1604
fountainhead1606
radix1607
springa1616
abundary1622
rist1622
primitive1628
primary1632
land-spring1642
extraction1655
upstart1669
progenerator1692
fontala1711
well-eye1826
first birth1838
ancestry1880
Quelle1893
the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > evolutionary ancestor
progenerator1692
ancestorc1760
monad1826
progenitor1855
protomorph1876
promorph1889
phylembryo1890
protolife1964
1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica xix. 118 How Gravel (which is the Progenerator of the Stone) is bred, there is various Opinions.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. i. 12/2 All the Vermiculi, or Miasmata, which are the Progenerators of the Plague, or Pestilence.
1922 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. 10 June If Adam, Eve, Abel and Cain are the progenerators of Creation, who were the people from whom Cain got his wife?
1987 Financial Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. 16 Fairchild was Silicon Valley's first commercial chip maker and the progenerator of several of today's leading US semiconductor firms.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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