ancessor

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin antecessor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anseˈsu/

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

ancessor m (plural ancessors)

1. (Languedoc) ancestor

Dialectal variants

• ancèstre (“Gascon”)

Old French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti

Proto-Italic *anti

Latin ante

Latin ante-

Latin cedo

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin antecessor

Old French ancessor

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)

1. ancestor

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)