antecessor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or thing that precedes or goes before. archaic
    — 1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants
  2. A person from whom one is descended. archaic
    — […] some, hath iudged wrongfully As in reproche, of our country Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.

词形变化

antecessors plural antecessour alternative,obsolete

词源

Inherited 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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