predecessor

/ˈpɹiːdɪsɛsɚ/

Misollar

Al-Qaida was a predecessor to Daesh.
His background parallels that of his predecessor.
Floppy disks are the predecessor of hard disks.
The tabernacle was the predecessor of the Temple.
Lojban and its predecessor Loglan are mutually unintelligible.
His humble background parallels that of his predecessor.

ot noun

One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.