predecessor

English

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Etymology

From Latin prae (“before”) + decedo (“go away”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsə(ɹ)/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsɚ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛd.ə.sɛs.ɚ/, /ˈpɹi.də.sɛs.ɚ/

Noun

predecessor (plural predecessors)

  1. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
  2. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
    The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
  3. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for predecessor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References
  1. Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.

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Catalan

Noun

predecessor m (plural predecessors)

  1. primary

Portuguese

Noun

predecessor m (plural predecessores, feminine predecessora, feminine plural predecessoras)

  1. predecessor (something or someone who precedes)

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Adjective

predecessor m (feminine singular predecessora, masculine plural predecessores, feminine plural predecessoras, comparable)

  1. preceding (occurring before or in front of something else)

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