antecursor

English

Etymology

Latin antecursor, from ante (“before, in front”) + cursor (“runner”)

Noun

antecursor (plural antecursors)

(obsolete) A forerunner; a precursor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antecursor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

raconteurs, Ur-ancestor, ur-ancestor, currantoes, cuarterons

Latin

Etymology

ante- (“before”) +‎ currō (“run”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix)

Noun

antecursor m (genitive antecursōris); third declension

forerunner, scout, vanguard

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	antecursor	antecursōrēs
Genitive	antecursōris	antecursōrum
Dative	antecursōrī	antecursōribus
Accusative	antecursōrem	antecursōrēs
Ablative	antecursōre	antecursōribus
Vocative	antecursor	antecursōrēs

References

“antecursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“antecursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
antecursor 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)
antecursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.