different between procreator vs predecessor

English

Noun

procreator (plural procreators)

1. One who procreates; a father or mother.
2. (figuratively) One who originates or creates something.

Translations

Latin

Verb

pr?cre?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of pr?cre?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of pr?cre?

References

• procreator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• procreator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procreator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Alternative forms

• prædecessor (archaic)
• prædecessour (obsolete, rare)
• predecessour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin praedecessor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?i?d?s?s?(?)/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?p?i?d?s?s?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??d.?.s?s.?/, /?p?i.d?.s?s.?/

Noun

predecessor (plural predecessors)

1. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
2. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.

   The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.

3. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

Synonyms

• forerunner
• foreganger (archaic, rare)

Antonyms

• (one who precedes): successor
• (machinery or device which precedes): successor

Translations

Anagrams

• corepressed, reprocessed

Catalan

Noun

predecessor m (plural predecessors, feminine predecessora)

1. predecessor

Further reading

• “predecessor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “predecessor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “predecessor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “predecessor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Noun

predecessor m (plural predecessores, feminine predecessora, feminine plural predecessoras)

1. predecessor (something or someone who precedes)

   Synonym: antecessor

Adjective

predecessor m (feminine singular predecessora, masculine plural predecessores, feminine plural predecessoras, comparable)

1. preceding (occurring before or in front of something else)

   Synonyms: antecessor, anterior