The story
- Latin · derived frompraecentor
- French · derived fromprécenteur
- English todayprecentor
From French précenteur, from Latin praecentor, from praecentus (“sung before”), from praecinō (“to sing before”) + -or (“agent suffix”), from prae- + canĕre (“to sing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.