An earlier type; a progenitor
One who had the same role or function in former times.
One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
To be an ancestor of.
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
To create a prototype of.