successorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• successour (obsolete)

語源

From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /səkˈsɛsə/
• IPA: (General American) /səkˈsɛsɚ/, /səˈsɛsɚ/

名詞

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, →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:

     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.

同意語

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

反意語

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

派生語

• successor ideology

参考

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

発音

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

名詞

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

1. follower, successor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “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.