# antecessor
## English
### Alternative forms

* antecessour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Latin antecessor. Doublet of ancestor.

### Noun

antecessor (plural antecessors)
* (now rare) A person or thing that precedes or goes before.
    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 [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.
    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.”

### Anagrams

* censorates

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ən.tə.səˈso]
* IPA: (Valencia) [an.te.seˈsoɾ]

### Noun

antecessor m (plural antecessors, feminine antecessora)
* predecessor

#### Related terms

* antecedència
* antecedent
* antecedentment
* antecedir

## Latin
### Etymology

Compound of ante +‎ cedo +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /an.teˈkes.sor/, [än̪t̪ɛˈkɛs̠ːɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /an.teˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [än̪t̪eˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

### Noun

antecessor m (genitive antecessōris); third declension
* predecessor
* vanguard, scout

#### Declension

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

* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Old Romansch: antschuors (plural)
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: ãse̢stro, ãse̢stre̢
** Old French: ancestre, ancessor
*** French: ancêtre
*** Norman: anchêtre
*** → Middle English: ancestre, ancessour
**** English: ancestor
*** → Spanish: ancestro
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Occitan: ancèstre, ancessor
** Old Catalan: ancessor
* Borrowings:
** → English: antecessor
** → French: antécesseur
** → Galician: antecesor
** → Italian: antecessore
** → Portuguese: antecessor
** → Romanian: antecesor
** → Spanish: antecesor
** → Translingual: Homo antecessor (learned)

### 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /ɐ̃.te.seˈsoʁ/ [ɐ̃.te.seˈsoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ɐ̃.te.seˈsoʁ/ [ɐ̃.te.seˈsoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ɐ̃.te.seˈsoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ɐ̃.te.seˈsoʁ/ [ɐ̃.te.seˈsoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ɐ̃.te.seˈsoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ̃.tɨ.sɨˈsoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ̃.tɨ.sɨˈsoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ̃.tɨ.sɨˈso.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: an‧te‧ces‧sor

### Noun

antecessor m (plural antecessores, feminine antecessora, feminine plural antecessoras)
* predecessor (one who precedes)
    Synonym: predecessor