predeceased
（人より）先に亡くなる
解説 Definition
ある人より前に亡くなること、またはそのように先立って亡くなっている状態を表す語。遺言、相続、訃報などの文脈でよく使われ、誰が誰より先に亡くなったかを明確に示すときに用いられる。
Predeceased means died before another person. It is often used in legal, family, or formal records when talking about relatives or inheritance. The word usually appears in past or formal descriptions.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず pre- を見たら「前もって」と反応できるようにすると、この語はほぼ読めます。deceased は obituary や legal documents で見かける「死亡した」で、predeceased はそこに「より前に」が乗った形。つまり「ある基準人物より先に亡くなった」。日常会話の die よりかなり事務的で、相続・遺言・家系図で誰が先に亡くなったかを厳密に示す場面で出る語だと覚えると定着しやすいです。
Split it into `pre-` and `deceased`. `Pre-` means `before`, and `deceased` is the formal word for someone who has died. So this word often appears in family, legal, or inheritance contexts to show that one person died before another. It sounds much more official than simple `died`.
例文
His father had predeceased him, so the estate passed directly to the grandchildren.
父親が彼より先に亡くなっていたため、遺産は直接孫たちに渡った。
If a beneficiary has predeceased the testator, their share is redistributed.
受益者が遺言者より先に亡くなっている場合、その取り分は再分配される。
She was predeceased by her husband, who died three years earlier.
彼女は、3年前に亡くなった夫に先立たれていた。
predeceased の類義語・関連語
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predeceased の語源・成り立ち Etymology
predeceased は接頭辞 pre-『前に』+ decease『死ぬ』+ 過去分詞語尾 -ed から成るラテン語系の語です。precede や decease と同じ形が見えるので、『ある人より先に亡くなった』という法律・戸籍上の意味が形のまま理解できます。
Predeceased is made from pre-, meaning "before," and deceased, from decease. Decease comes through Old French and Latin sources linked to the idea of departing or dying. The full form came to mean "having died before someone else," especially in legal or family records. Related words include precede and decease.
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