precursor

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• prĭ-kûr′sər
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• prē′kûr′sər
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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈkɜː.sə/
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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːˌkɜː.sə/
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• Canada, General-American: /pɹɪˈkɜɹ.səɹ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈpɹiˌkɜɹ.səɹ/
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• New-Zealand: /pɹəˈkøː.sɐ/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈpɹiːˌkøː.sɐ/
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• Scotland: /pɹɪˈkʌɹ.səɹ/
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• Scotland: /ˈpɹiˌkʌɹ.səɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɜːsə
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• rhymes with -iːkɜːsə
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• CMU ARPABET: P R IY0 K ER1 S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English cursor English precursor From pre- + cursor.

Inherited from Middle English precursour, from Middle French precurseur or its etymon Latin praecursor (“forerunner”). By surface analysis, precurse + -or.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pris — forerunner, predecessor
• Bengali: অগ্রদূত (ogrodut) — forerunner, predecessor
• Bulgarian: предшественик (predšestvenik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Bulgarian: предвестник (predvestnik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Catalan: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Catalan: precursora — forerunner, predecessor
• Chinese Mandarin: 先驅 /先驱 (xiānqū) — forerunner, predecessor
• Czech: předchůdce — forerunner, predecessor
• Dutch: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Dutch: voorloper — forerunner, predecessor
• Finnish: edeltäjä — forerunner, predecessor
• Finnish: edelläkävijä — forerunner, predecessor
• French: précurseur — forerunner, predecessor
• French: précurseuse — forerunner, predecessor
• Georgian: წინამორბედი (c̣inamorbedi) — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Vorläufer — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Vorgänger — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Wegbereiter — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Vorbote — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Anzeichen — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Vorreiter — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Präkursor — forerunner, predecessor
• German: Amtsvorgänger — forerunner, predecessor
• Ancient Greek: πρόδρομος (pródromos) — forerunner, predecessor
• Hungarian: előfutár — forerunner, predecessor
• Japanese: 前兆 (zenchō) — forerunner, predecessor
• Japanese: 先駆者 (senkusha) — forerunner, predecessor
• Kazakh: ізашар (ızaşar) — forerunner, predecessor
• Korean: 선구자 (seon'guja) — forerunner, predecessor
• Northern Kurdish: pêşeng — forerunner, predecessor
• Northern Kurdish: pêşrew — forerunner, predecessor
• Macedonian: претходник (prethodnik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Macedonian: предвесник (predvesnik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Occitan: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Occitan: precursora — forerunner, predecessor
• Polish: prekursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Polish: prekursorka — forerunner, predecessor
• Portuguese: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Portuguese: precursora — forerunner, predecessor
• Romanian: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Romanian: precursoare — forerunner, predecessor
• Russian: предше́ственник (predšéstvennik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Russian: предше́ственница (predšéstvennica) — forerunner, predecessor
• Russian: предве́стник (predvéstnik) — forerunner, predecessor
• Russian: предве́стница (predvéstnica) — forerunner, predecessor
• Spanish: precursor — forerunner, predecessor
• Swedish: förelöpare — forerunner, predecessor
• Swedish: föregångare — forerunner, predecessor
• Tamil: முன்னோடி (muṉṉōṭi) — forerunner, predecessor
• Turkish: öncül — forerunner, predecessor
• Ukrainian: попере́дник (poperédnyk) — forerunner, predecessor
• Ukrainian: попере́дниця (poperédnycja) — forerunner, predecessor
• Ukrainian: предте́ча (predtéča) — forerunner, predecessor
• Zulu: imvula — forerunner, predecessor
• Bulgarian: изходно вещество (izhodno veštestvo) — chemical compound
• Catalan: precursor — chemical compound
• Chinese Mandarin: 前體 /前体 (qiántǐ) — chemical compound
• Dutch: precursor — chemical compound
• Finnish: esiaste — chemical compound
• French: réactif — chemical compound
• French: précurseur — chemical compound
• German: Edukt — chemical compound
• German: Vorläufer — chemical compound
• German: Präkursor — chemical compound
• German: Vorform — chemical compound
• German: Vorprodukt — chemical compound
• German: Vorläuferverbindung — chemical compound
• German: Vorläufersubstanz — chemical compound
• German: Vorstufe — chemical compound
• Hungarian: prekurzor — chemical compound
• Indonesian: prekursor — chemical compound
• Italian: precursore — chemical compound
• Japanese: 前駆物質 (zenku-busshitu) — chemical compound
• Japanese: 前駆体 (zenku-tai) — chemical compound
• Korean: 전구체 (jeon'guche) — chemical compound
• Polish: prekursor — chemical compound
• Portuguese: precursor — chemical compound
• Russian: предше́ственник (predšéstvennik) — chemical compound
• Russian: реакти́в (reaktív) — chemical compound
• Spanish: precursor — chemical compound
• Swedish: prekursor — chemical compound