A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind.
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A precursor is something that comes before something else.
A 'precursor' (all one word) is a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind, who/which is usually greater than the precursor. The word comes from the Latin word prae (meaning beforehand) and currere (meaning to run) which means to run before.
Precursor
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This likely is from the Latin precursor word pater(father).
The word "library" has a long vowel sound because of the silent "e" at the end of the word. The presence of the silent "e" changes the pronunciation of the vowel "i" from short to long.
The root word "curs" means "to run". Some examples of this are "current, concurrent, concur, incur, recur, occur, precursor, cursive".
It turned out that the nausea I felt wasn't from the black coffee I drank, but was the precursor to a terrible stomach flu that lasted all week.The original Law & Order was not only the precursor to three other Law & Order shows, but to a whole new generation of American crime shows.
The precursor to the steel drum is 'tamboo bamboo'.
A precursor is a substance from which a more active substance is derived. For opium, the opium poppy flower could be regarded as a precursor. For marijuana, seeds for growing could be regarded as a precursor ... and so on and do forth.
The precursor cell to blood platelets are megakaryocyte precursor (MkP) cells in the bone marrow.