English → Latin
“successor” in Latin
successorfollower, successorsublegōto gather or pick up or from below, gather or search for underneath; to take away secretly or by stealth; listen to secrsubstituōto place next to, under, or instead of; to substitute, put instead or in the place of anothersufficiōto supply, provide, afford, give, fill, imbue, furnish, yield, produce; to put under or among; to dip, dye, steep, imprerēgnumroyal power, power, control, reign; kingdom, realm, throne; kingship, royalty
The English word successor itself goes back to Latin cēdō, through successor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
successor
successor (always, except in connection, with a genitive of the office to which one succeeds); usually by by circumlocution, qui in alicujus locum succedit, sublegitur, substituitur, subrogatur, or sufficitur: a successor on a throne, qui succedit (in alicujus locum) regno: to give a successor to anyone, aliquem in alicujus locum substituere, sublegere, subrogare, or sufficere (by election); alicui successorem dare, mittere (by removing him; Suet., Oct., 88: Dom., 1): a person receives a successor, alicui succeditur (general term); aliquis successorem accipit (he is removed, Plin., Ep., 9, 13, extr.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for successor?
- The usual Latin words for “successor” are successor, sublegō, substituō; also sufficiō, rēgnum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.