antecursor

From Latin antecursor, from ante (“before, in front”) + cursor (“runner”).

antecursor (plural antecursors)

1. (obsolete) A forerunner; a precursor.

• “antecursor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• raconteurs, Ur-ancestor, ur-ancestor, currantoes, cuarterons

ante- (“before”) +‎ currō (“run”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix)

antecursor m (genitive antecursōris); third declension

1. forerunner, scout, vanguard

Third-declension noun.

• “antecursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “antecursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "antecursor", 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)
• antecursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.