People or beings that existed or lived before a specified birth or era, those preceding a particular generation.
From Latin 'antenati' (plural of 'antenatus', literally 'born before'). A very rare historical term from Medieval Latin genealogical records.
Medieval genealogists used 'antenati' to describe ancestors from so long ago that their actual births predated reliable records—it's essentially Latin for 'the people before anyone was writing things down'.
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