successor Latin · revision 32024

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la cēdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊkˈkɛs.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sutˈt͡ʃɛs.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''successor''' ''m'' (genitive successōris, feminine succestrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|succēdō|-tor|t1=to come after, succeed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is from [[m|la|sub-]] and [[m|la|cēdō|t=to go, yield]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]];^(de Vaan 2008) Lubotsky connects it with [[sa|सेधति|tr=sedhati|t=drives away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first examples in Lewis & Short are in Cicero, as “the predecessor envied his successor”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who succeeds another in an office or position.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law it is one who succeeds to property, an heir, as in Tacitus' Germans, whose heirs and successors are each man's own children, with no will.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of the heir of Hercules' arrows, Philoctetes, and of a successor in poetry: “this one was your successor, Gallus, and Propertius his”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “successor, follower”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a successor in office.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the heir of Hercules' arrows and of a line of poets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of heirs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|successor]], through Anglo-French and Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|successor]] in office or position, a follower.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' One who succeeds to property, an [[m|en|heir]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A successor in a field of study or art.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[succedo|alt=succēdō]]

+ * [[cedo|alt=cēdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}