Etymology

antecursor

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Today it means: A forerunner; a precursor. Full definition →

Latin antecursor
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromantecursor
  2. English todayantecursor

From Latin antecursor, from ante (“before, in front”) + cursor (“runner”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.