Where does “antecedent” come from?

antecedent (Old French) comes 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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinantecēdēnsantecedent
2Latinantecēdōto precede (go before or in front of)
3Latincēdōto go, move, proceed, go along, move along
4Proto-Italickedōgive here!
5Proto-Italickehere
6Indo-European*ḱe—

Words derived from “antecedent”

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