Where does “antecedent” come from?
antecedent (Middle English) comes from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns, from Latin antecēdō, from Latin cēdō, from Proto-Italic kedō, from Proto-Italic ke, from Indo-European *ḱe.
Ancestry of “antecedent”, step by step
Words derived from “antecedent”