The story
- Latin · derived fromantecessor
- Middle French · derived fromantecesseur
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromantecessour
- Middle English · inherited fromantecessour
- English todayantecessor
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.