antecessor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- antecessour (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Latin antecessor. Doublet of ancestor.
Noun edit
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,[3]
- […] 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[4], 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[5], 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[6], Boston: Shambhala, Introduction, pp. 14-15:
- The Book of Change in the general form it is known today [sic] 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[7], 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[8], London, Chapter 11, Dialogue 13, p. 926:
- 1992, Lynne Bowen, chapter 1, in Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists[9], Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, page 5:
References edit
- ^ 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.”[1]
- ^ Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Antecessours, […] Fore-fathers.”[2]
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antecessor m (plural antecessors, feminine antecessora)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Compound of ante + cedo + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /an.teˈkes.sor/, [än̪t̪ɛˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /an.teˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [än̪t̪eˈt͡ʃɛsːor]
Noun edit
antecessor m (genitive antecessōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | antecessor | antecessōrēs |
Genitive | antecessōris | antecessōrum |
Dative | antecessōrī | antecessōribus |
Accusative | antecessōrem | antecessōrēs |
Ablative | antecessōre | antecessōribus |
Vocative | antecessor | antecessōrēs |
Descendants edit
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Old Romansch: antschuors (plural)
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → English: antecessor
- → French: antécesseur
- → Galician: antecesor
- → Italian: antecessore
- → Portuguese: antecessor
- → Romanian: antecesor
- → Spanish: antecesor
References edit
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[10], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “antecessor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 642
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin antecessōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: an‧te‧ces‧sor
Noun edit
antecessor m (plural antecessores, feminine antecessora, feminine plural antecessoras)
- predecessor (one who precedes)
- Synonym: predecessor