Where does “successor” come from?

Successor comes from Old French successour, from Latin successor, derived from Latin succedo meaning "to follow after," from Latin cedo "to yield" combined with Latin sub "under," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃ewp-.

successor (English): A person or thing that immediately follows...

Definitions

  1. A person or thing that immediately follows...

Ancestry of “successor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normansuccessoursuccessor
2Latinsuccessorfollower, successor
3Latinsuccēdōto climb, mount or ascend, go from under; go up
4Latincēdōto go, move, proceed, go along, move along
5Proto-Italickedōgive here!
6Proto-Italickehere
7Indo-European*ḱe—

Words derived from “successor”

Every word from Indo-European *ḱe →Every word from Proto-Italic ke →Every word from Proto-Italic kedō →