engelska-spanska översättning av ancestor

ancestroCada pueblo hereda de sus ancestros una civilización que debe conservar. Every nation inherits from its ancestors a civilisation that it must preserve. Señor Presidente, uno de mis ancestros fue capitán de un barco que navegaba entre Escocia y Valparaíso, Chile. Mr President, one of my ancestors was the captain of a ship sailing between Scotland and Valparaiso, Chile. Por último, ¿alguien necesita que se le recuerde el trágico destino de los serbokosovares, perseguidos en la tierra de sus ancestros, hoy colonizada? Lastly, does anyone need reminding of the tragic fate of the Kosovo Serbs, persecuted on the now colonised land of their ancestors?
antepasadoQuieren una "sepultura moral" para sus antepasados. They want a 'moral resting-place' for their ancestors. Quisiera recordar que nuestros antepasados se desplazaban fácilmente. I should like to point out that our ancestors used readily to move around. Todos somos inmigrantes, si no en primera persona sí en la figura de algún familiar o antepasado. We are all immigrants, if not ourselves personally, then through one of our relations or ancestors.

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
An earlier type; a progenitor
One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir
One who had the same role or function in former times
To be an ancestor of

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