antecessor
antecessor · antecessors
A person or thing that precedes or goes beforeA person or thing that precedes or goes before.
Meaning
2 senses(archaic)A person or thing that precedes or goes before.
1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants
(archaic)A person from whom one is descended.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Inherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French anInherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of ancestor.
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Forms
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