Word Origin Summary

Praecursor is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• precursor

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• précurseur

  French · derived from

• prekursor

  Polish · derived from

• precursor

  Spanish · borrowed from

• precursor

  Dutch · borrowed from

• precursore

  Italian · borrowed from

• precursory

  English · derived from

• precursor

  Romanian · borrowed from

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root