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English
Etymology
From Latin antecessor. Doublet of ancestor.
Noun
antecessor (plural antecessors)
- (now rare) A person or thing that precedes or goes before.[1]
- Synonyms: precursor, predecessor
- Antonym: successor
- 1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57,
- the Waldenses Antecessors of the Protestants
1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on a Barrister’s Hints on Evangelical Preaching”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: W. Pickering, published 1839, page 343:Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?
1890, Grant Allen, chapter 23, in The Great Taboo, London: Chatto & Windus, page 209:This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.
1994, Thomas Cleary, The Human Element: A Course in Resourceful Thinking, Boston: Shambhala, Introduction, pp. 14-15:The Book of Change in the general form it is known today is approximately three thousand years old. It is the third in a series of such texts, its antecessors supposed by some scholars to have been composed six and twelve hundred years earlier.
- (now rare) A person from whom one is descended.[2]
- Synonym: ancestor
- Antonym: descendant
1547, Arthur Kelton, A chronycle with a genealogie declaryng that the Brittons and Welshemen are linealiye dyscended from Brute, London: Richard Grafton:[…] some, hath iudged wrongfully
As in reproche, of our country
Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute
Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.
1614, Thomas Wilson, A Commentarie upon the Most Divine Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes, London, Chapter 11, Dialogue 13, p. 926:[…] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,
1992, Lynne Bowen, chapter 1, in Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists, Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, page 5:At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.
References
- ^ Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, London: James and John Knapton, 1728, Volume 1, p. 106: “ANTECESSOR, one that goes before, or leads another. The Term is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law.”
- ^ Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Antecessours, Fore-fathers.”
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Pronunciation
Noun
antecessor m (plural antecessors, feminine antecessora)
- predecessor
Latin
Etymology
Compound of ante + cedo + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
antecessor m (genitive antecessōris); third declension
- predecessor
- vanguard, scout
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “antecessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- antecessor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- antecessor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- antecessor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “antecessor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 642
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin antecessōrem.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: an‧te‧ces‧sor
Noun
antecessor m (plural antecessores, feminine antecessora, feminine plural antecessoras)
- predecessor (one who precedes)
- Synonym: predecessor