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• successour (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.

• (UK) IPA(key): /səkˈsɛsə/
• IPA(key): (General American) /səkˈsɛsɚ/, /səˈsɛsɚ/

successor (plural successors)

1. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
   George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
   • 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century‎[1], →OCLC, →OL, page 27:
     After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
     As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
2. The next heir in order or succession.
3. A person who inherits a title or office.
4. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
   A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.

• (person or thing that immediately follows another): aftercomer (uncommon); see also Thesaurus:successor

• (antonym(s) of “person or thing that immediately follows another”): predecessor; see also Thesaurus:predecessor

• successoral

• successorial

• successor ideology

• successorship

next heir in order or succession

• Albanian: pasardhës (sq)
• Arabic: وَارِث m (wāriṯ), وَارِثَة f (wāriṯa)
• Azerbaijani: varis (az)
• Belarusian: насле́днік m (nasljédnik), насле́дніца f (nasljédnica)
• Bulgarian: насле́дник (bg) m (naslédnik), насле́дничка f (naslédnička)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 繼承人 / 继承人 (zh) (jìchéngrén)
• Czech: dědic (cs) m, dědička (cs) f
• Danish: efterfølger (da) c
• Esperanto: heredonto
• Finnish: seuraaja (fi), manttelinperijä (fi), kruununperijä (fi)
• French: successeur (fr) m, successeuse (fr) f, successrice (fr) f
• Georgian: მემკვიდრე (memḳvidre)
• German: Nachfolger (de) m, Nachfolgerin (de) f, Erbe (de) m, Erbin (de) f
• Greek: διάδοχος (el) m or f (diádochos)
  Ancient Greek: διάδοχος m or f (diádokhos)
• Hindi: उत्तराधिकारी (hi) m (uttarādhikārī), वारिस (hi) m (vāris)
• Indonesian: pewaris (id)
• Italian: erede (it) m or f
• Japanese: 相続人 (ja) (そうぞくじん, sōzokujin)
• Kazakh: мұрагер (mūrager)
• Korean: 상속인(相續人) (sangsogin)
• Latin: successor m
• Macedonian: наследник m (naslednik), наследничка f (naslednička)
• Māori: piki tūranga, piki tūranga
• Persian: وارث (fa) (vâres)
• Polish: następca (pl) m, następczyni (pl) f, spadkobierca (pl) m, spadkobierczyni (pl) f, dziedzic (pl) m, dziedziczka (pl) f, sukcesor (pl) m, sukcesorka f
• Portuguese: sucessor (pt) m, sucessora f
• Russian: насле́дник (ru) m (naslédnik), насле́дница (ru) f (naslédnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: на́следнӣк m, на́сљеднӣк m, на́следница f, на́сљедница f
  Latin: následnīk (sh) m, násljednīk (sh) m, následnica f, násljednica (sh) f
• Slovak: dedič m, dedička f
• Slovene: naslednik m, naslednica f
• Tajik: ворис (voris)
• Thai: ผู้สืบมรดก
• Turkish: varis (tr)
• Ukrainian: наслі́дник m (naslídnyk), наслі́дниця f (naslídnycja), спадкоє́мець m (spadkojémecʹ), спадкоє́миця f (spadkojémycja)
• Urdu: وارث m (vāris)
• Uzbek: voris (uz)

person who inherits a title or office

• Azerbaijani: varis (az)
• Bulgarian: наследник (bg) m (naslednik), престолонаследник m (prestolonaslednik)
• Esperanto: posteulo (eo)
• Finnish: seuraaja (fi), vallanperijä
• Georgian: მემკვიდრე (memḳvidre)
• German: Nachfolger (de) m, Nachfolgerin (de) f
• Greek: διάδοχος (el) m or f (diádochos)
• Hindi: उत्तराधिकारी (hi) m (uttarādhikārī)
• Indonesian: pewaris (id)
• Italian: successore (it) m, succeditrice f
• Japanese: 後任 (ja) (こうにん, kōnin), 後継者 (ja) (こうけいしゃ, kōkeisha), 継承者 (ja) (けいしょうしゃ, keishōsha)
• Kazakh: ізбасар (ızbasar)
• Korean: 후임(後任) (ko) (hu'im), 후계자(後繼者) (ko) (hugyeja), 계승자(繼承者) (gyeseungja)
• Latin: successor m
• Māori: piki tūranga, whākapi
• Occitan: successor (oc) m
• Polish: następca (pl) m, następczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: sucessor (pt) m, sucessora f
• Romanian: moștenitor (ro) m
• Russian: насле́дник (ru) m (naslédnik), насле́дница (ru) f (naslédnica), правопрее́мник (ru) m (pravoprejémnik), правопрее́мница (ru) f (pravoprejémnica)
• Swedish: efterträdare (sv) c, efterföljare (sv) c
• Thai: ผู้สืบตำแหน่ง
• Welsh: olynydd m, olynyddes f

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

• successor
• addition, summation:
  (augend) + (addend) = (total)
  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
• subtraction:
  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication, factorization:
  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
• division:
  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
  (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
  Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
• exponentiation:
  (base) (exponent) = (power)
• root extraction:
  (degree) √ (radicand) = (root)
• logarithmization:
  log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Borrowed from Latin successōrem.

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [suk.səˈso]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [suk.seˈsoɾ]

successor (feminine successora, masculine plural successors, feminine plural successores)

1. (law) succeeding, following

successor m (plural successors, feminine successora, feminine plural successores)

1. successor

• succeir
• “successor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “successor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “successor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “successor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Latin successor

From succēdō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊkˈkɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sutˈt͡ʃɛs.sor]

successor m (genitive successōris, feminine succestrīx); third declension

1. follower, successor

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: successor

• → English: successor

• → French: successeur

• → Galician: sucesor

• → Italian: successore

• → Occitan: successor

• → Portuguese: sucessor

• → Spanish: sucesor

• “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “successor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• “successor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin successor.

successor m (plural successors)

1. successor

• succedir
• successiu

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