| Albanian | paraardhës , stërgjysh , prejardhes |
| Arabic | سلف , أسْلاف , جدّ |
| Bulgarian | праотец , предшественик , предтеча , прародител |
| Catalan | avantpassat , antecessor |
| Chinese (simplified) | 祖先 , 祖宗 |
| Danish | forfader |
| Greek | πρόγονος |
| English | ancestor2 (⊳ ⊳ ⇔) , antecedent1 (⊳) , root , ascendant , ascendent |
| Basque | aurreko , aurretiko , asaba , arbaso |
| Finnish | esiäiti , esi-isä , askendentti , kantaisä , asendentti |
| French | ancêtre , aïeul |
| Galician | antecesor , antergo , antepasado , devanceiro |
| Hebrew | אָב קַדְמוֹן |
| Croatian | predak , praotac |
| Indonesian | akar kata , keturunan , datuk poyang , salasilah , nenek moyang , leluhur |
| Icelandic | ættfaðir , ái , forfaðir |
| Italian | progenitore , avolo , bisarcavolo , antenato , bisavo , bisavolo , trisavo , ascendente , trisavolo , bisnonno , avo |
| Japanese | 祖 , 先人 , 先世 , 先祖 , 御祖 , 世祖 , 祖先 , 先つ祖 , ルーツ , 始祖 , 曩祖 , 高祖 |
| Lithuanian | protėvis , pirmtakas |
| Dutch | voorouder , stamvader , voorzaat , voorvaderen , voorloper , voorvader |
| Nynorsk | forfar , forfader |
| Bokmål | forfader |
| Polish | wstępny , ascendent , antenat , przodek |
| Portuguese | ancestral , Antepassado , antecedentes , antecessor , antepassado |
| Chinese (traditional) | 令祖 , 祖 , 先 |
| Romanian | ascendent |
| Slovak | predchodca , predok |
| Slovene | prednik , korenine , praoče , praded |
| Spanish | ancestro , antepasado , ascendente |
| Swedish | förfader |
| Thai | บรรพชน , ปู่ยาตายาย , เทือกเถาเหล่ากอ |
| Malaysian | akar kata , keturunan , datuk poyang , salasilah , nenek moyang , leluhur |
| Hyponym: | ancestress forebear forefather foremother progenitor |
| Hypernym: | relative |
| Antonym: | descendant |
| Semantic Field: | personn |
TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.078)
SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.12 -0.12)