successive

English

Etymology

From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səkˈsɛsɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
• Hyphenation: suc‧ces‧sive

Adjective

successive (not comparable)

Examples (grammar)
"Once you've turned left at the traffic lights, […] "

1. Coming one after the other in a series.

   They had won the title for five successive years.

   • 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.

2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.

   a successive title; a successive empire

3. (grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.

Synonyms

• (in a series): consecutive

Derived terms

• successively
• nonsuccessive

Related terms

• succeed
• success
• succession

Translations

in a series

• Arabic: مُتَتَابِع (mutatābiʕ), مُتَتَالٍ (mutatālin), مُتَوَالٍ (mutawālin)
• Bulgarian: следващ (bg) (sledvašt)
• Catalan: successiu (ca)
• Finnish: peräkkäinen (fi), perättäinen (fi)
• French: successif (fr)
• German: aufeinanderfolgende (de), aufeinander folgend
• Greek: αλλεπάλληλος (el) (allepállilos)
• Indonesian: suksesif (id)
• Latin: alternus
• Maori: whakaekeeke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: suksessiv

• Russian: после́дующий (ru) (poslédujuščij), сле́дующий (ru) (slédujuščij)
• Spanish: sucesivo (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sinsekva
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} თანმიმდევრული (tanmimdevruli)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} succesiv (ro)

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

successive

1. feminine singular of successif

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sut.t͡ʃesˈsi.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: suc‧ces‧sì‧ve

Adjective

successive

1. feminine plural of successivo

Latin

Adjective

successīve

1. vocative masculine singular of successīvus

References

• successive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Swedish

Adjective

successive

1. definite natural masculine singular of successiv