ancessor
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin antecessor.
Pronunciation
Noun
ancessor m (plural ancessors)
Dialectal variants
- ancèstre (“Gascon”)
Old French
Etymology
Latin antecessor, from antecedō (“to precede”, verb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (early) /ant͡səˈsoːɾ/
Noun
ancessor oblique singular, m (oblique plural ancessors, nominative singular ancestre, nominative plural ancessor)
Descendants
- French: ancêtre (from the nominative ancestre)
- Norman: anchêtre (from the nominative ancestre)
- → Middle English: auncessour, ancessoure
- → Middle English: auncestre, ancestre, auncetere, auncestor (Late Middle English), awncetyr (Promptorium Parvulorum) (from the nominative ancestre)
- English: ancestor
- Middle Scots: auncester (hapax)