antecessor

• antecessour (obsolete)

From Latin antecessor. Doublet of ancestor.

antecessor (plural antecessors)

1. (obsolete) predecessor
   • 1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.‎:

     Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty's antecessor and grandfather?

   • 1890, Grant Allen, The Great Taboo‎:

     This, then, is their horrid counsel and device--that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.

antecessor m (plural antecessors, feminine antecessora)

1. predecessor

• antecedència
• antecedent
• antecedentment
• antecedir

From ante- (“before”) +‎ cēdō (“go”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.teˈkes.sor/, [an.tɛˈkɛs.sɔr]

antecessor m (genitive antecessōris); third declension

1. predecessor
2. vanguard, scout

Third declension.

• 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, 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin antecessor.

antecessor m (plural antecessores, feminine antecessora, feminine plural antecessoras)

1. predecessor (one who precedes)

• predecessor