Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *antikeztōrProto-Italicinherited from
2. *h₂éntiḱyesdʰtōrProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• anchêtre

  Norman · derived from

• antecessor

  Portuguese · derived from

• ancêtre

  French · inherited from

• ancestor

  English · derived from

• antecesor

  Romanian · borrowed from

• ancestro

  Spanish · derived from

• antecesor

  Spanish · borrowed from

• antécesseur

  French · borrowed from

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