precedencia

Forms

precedencia f (plural precedencias)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin praecedentia, a learned word.^[2][3][4] The Academy's dictionaries of 1884 and 1899 derived it instead from Spanish precedente, and Alemany in 1917 from the Latin word.^[5][6][7] The Latin noun belongs to praecēdō (“to go before, precede”), formed with prae- and cēdō (“to go, yield”).^[8][1][9]

Corominas lists it, without a date, among the learned words of the family of ceder, beside preceder (1490, Alfonso de Palencia) and the adjective recorded from 1433, in Villena.^[10][11]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record in the CDH is Enrique de Villena's glossed Aeneid (1427–1428, in a copy of 1442), on those who become enemies sin preçedençia de amiçiçia, “without previous friendship”.^[12] There it means simply “being or coming before”, priority in time.^[12]

Semantic evolution

By the late 15th century the word also named a right of priority: a royal letter of 1477 lists antelaçiones e preçedençias among privileges, and Hernando del Pulgar (1486) tells of an English ambassador who tried to take the place of precedencia that belonged to the king of Castile.^[12] The Diccionario de Autoridades gave both the act of going before another and the right to go first in seats and public ceremonies.^[13] The Academy's 1817 dictionary arranged the senses as they still stand in the DLE: priority in time or order, preference in place and in ceremonial acts, and primacy or superiority.^[14][2] Spanish American records from 1642 on concern above all questions of rank and jurisdiction.^[15]

Timeline

• 1427–1428 – Villena writes preçedençia in his glossed Aeneid (copy of 1442).^[12]
• 1477 – the first record without a later copy, in a royal letter on privileges.^[12]
• 1486 – Hernando del Pulgar uses it for the ceremonial rank of ambassadors.^[12]
• 1642 – the first record from the Americas, in Chile.^[15]
• 1726–1739 – the Diccionario de Autoridades records the right to go first at public functions.^[13]
• 1884 – the Academy's dictionary derives it from precedente.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. priority in time; anterioridad.^[2][3][1]
2. Being placed before something else in an order.^[2]
3. precedence: the right to a preferred place or seat, and to go first in ceremonial acts: El protocolo fija la precedencia de los invitados.^[2][1]
4. Primacy, superiority (primacía).^[2][3]

Related words

• preceder
• precedente
• ceder
• anteceder

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. precedencia
3. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. precedencia
4. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. s.v. precedencia
5. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 856
6. ^ Real Academia Española (1899), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 13th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de los Sres. Hernando y Compañía, p. 804
7. ^ Alemany y Bolufer, José (1917), Diccionario de la lengua española, Barcelona: Ramón Sopena, p. 1362
8. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
9. ^ Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 585
10. ^ Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 2, s.v. ceder
11. ^ Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. ceder
12. ^ a b c d e f Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. precedencia
13. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 5, 346
14. ^ Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 696
15. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. precedencia