precursor
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: prĭ-kûr′sər, prē′kûr′sər[1]
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈkɜː.sə/, /ˈpɹiːˌkɜː.sə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Brisbane): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈkɜɹ.səɹ/, /ˈpɹiˌkɜɹ.səɹ/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɹəˈkøː.sɐ/, /ˈpɹiːˌkøː.sɐ/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈkʌɹ.səɹ/, /ˈpɹiˌkʌɹ.səɹ/
- (India) IPA(key): /pɾɪˈkəːʳ.səʳ/, /ˈpɾiːˌkəːʳ.səʳ/
- Rhymes: -ɜːsə, -iːkɜːsə
- Hyphenation: pre‧cur‧sor[1]
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Middle English precursoure, borrowed from Old French precurseur, borrowed from Latin praecursor (“forerunner”).[1] By surface analysis, precurse + -or.
Alternative forms
[edit]- (obsolete) præcursor
Noun
[edit]precursor (plural precursors)
- That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.
- 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
- Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
- (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.
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Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]precursor (not comparable)
- (telecommunications, of intersymbol interference) Caused by the following symbol.
- Antonym: postcursor
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “precursor”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]- “precursor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “precursor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin praecursōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.kurˈso]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.kuɾˈsoɾ]
- Hyphenation: pre‧cur‧sor
Adjective
[edit]precursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursors, feminine plural precursores)
- precursory (relating to events that will follow)
Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursors, feminine precursora)
- precursor (forerunner, predecessor)
Further reading
[edit]- “precursor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
- “precursor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “precursor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “precursor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin praecursor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursors or precursoren, diminutive precursortje n)
Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: prekursor
Further reading
[edit]- “precursor” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Occitan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursors, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)
- precursor (forerunner, predecessor)
Further reading
[edit]- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 552.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin praecursōrem.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pre‧cur‧sôr
Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)
Related terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]precursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras)
- precursory (relating to events that will follow)
Further reading
[edit]- “precursor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French précurseur.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursori, feminine equivalent precursoare)
- precursor (forerunner, predecessor)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | precursor | precursorul | precursori | precursorii | |
genitive-dative | precursor | precursorului | precursori | precursorilor | |
vocative | precursorule | precursorilor |
Further reading
[edit]- “precursor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin praecursōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]precursor (feminine precursora, masculine plural precursores, feminine plural precursoras)
- precursory (relating to events that will follow)
Noun
[edit]precursor m (plural precursores, feminine precursora, feminine plural precursoras)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “precursor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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