antecessor

n. 先行者, 先驱者 [法] 地产的故主, 祖先, 发起人

词形变化

antecessors 复数 antecessors

别名

antecessour

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person or thing that precedes or goes before.

    古体

    1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants

  2. 2.

    A person from whom one is descended.

    古体

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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