successive

English

Etymology

Latin succedere (“to succeed in”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
• Hyphenation: suc‧ces‧sive

Adjective

successive (not comparable)

1. Coming one after the other in a series.

   They had won the title for five successive years.

   • 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.

2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

   a successive title; a successive empire

Synonyms

• (in a series): consecutive

Derived terms

• successively
• nonsuccessive

Related terms

• succeed
• success

Translations

in a series

• Arabic: مُتَتَابِع (mutatābiʕ), مُتَتَالٍ (mutatālin), مُتَوَالٍ (mutawālin)
• Catalan: successiu (ca)
• Finnish: peräkkäinen (fi), perättäinen (fi)
• French: successif (fr)
• German: aufeinanderfolgende (de), aufeinander folgend
• Greek: αλλεπάλληλος (el) (allepállilos)
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• Maori: whakaekeeke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suksessiv

• Russian: после́дующий (ru) (poslédujuščij), сле́дующий (ru) (slédujuščij)
• Spanish: sucesivo (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sinsekva
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} თანმიმდევრული (tanmimdevruli)
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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} succesiv (ro)

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French

Adjective

successive

1. feminine singular of successif

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Italian

Adjective

successive

1. feminine singular of successivo

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) successīve

1. vocative masculine singular of successīvus

References

• successive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Swedish

Adjective

successive

1. (deprecated template usage) definite natural masculine singular of successiv