antecessour

antecessour (plural antecessours)

1. Obsolete form of antecessor.

• counterseas, raconteuses

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante +‎ cedo +‎ -tor; thus a doublet of auncessour and auncestre. First attested in c. 1400.

• IPA^(key): /anˌtɛsɛˈsuːr/ (after French)
• IPA^(key): /ˌantɛˈsɛsur/ (after Latin)

antecessour (plural antecessours)

1. A predecessor; an officeholder preceding a person.
2. An ancestor or progenitor; someone that a person is descended from.

• English: antecessor
• Middle Scots: antecessour

• “antecessǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “antecessor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.