concedo

concedo

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concēdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkɔnˈseː.doː/
  • Hyphenation: con‧ce‧do
  • Rhymes: -eːdoː

Adverb

concedo

  1. (dated) I concede, admittedly

Galician

Verb

concedo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of conceder

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃɛ.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdo
  • Hyphenation: con‧cè‧do

Verb

concedo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of concedere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From con- + cēdō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    concēdō (present infinitive concēdere, perfect active concessī, supine concessum); third conjugation

    1. to depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away
      Synonyms: recēdō, dēcēdō, cēdō, regredior, referō, dēficiō, recipiō, excēdō, discēdō, abscēdō, āmoveō, facessō, subtrahō, subdūcō, vertō, inclīnō
      Antonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, aggredior, ēvehō, incēdō, accēdō, adeō
      • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.17:
        Sī tē parentēs timērent atque ōdissent tuī neque eōs ūllā ratiōne plācāre possēs, ut opīnor, ab eōrum oculīs aliquō concēderēs.
        If your parents feared and hated you, and you were unable to appease them by any means, you would, as I believe, withdraw somewhere from their sight.
    2. to disappear or vanish
      Synonyms: intereō, excēdō, discēdō, dēcēdō, cēdō, pereō
      Antonyms: crescō, exorior, orior, coorior, oborior, appāreō, pāreō, ēmergō, procedō
    3. to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon
      Synonyms: dēserō, relinquō, omittō, dēdō, dēcēdō, dēstituō, dēficiō, oblīvīscor, cēdō, linquō, dēsinō, dissimulō, trādō, trānsmittō, addīcō, praetereō, dēspondeō, neglegō, pōnō, reddō, , remittō, permittō, tribuō, dēferō, trānsferō
    4. to grant or allow, allow, yield, grant, concede
      Synonyms: sinō, remittō, permittō, immittō, cēdō, condōnō, largior
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.675:
        nec tū vīcīnō quicquam concēde rogantī
        Don’t yield anything to a neighbor [who’s] asking you [to].
        (The protector of boundary stones, Terminus (god), had a divine duty to guard property, and ought not defer to human requests. As Ovid invokes Terminus, the poet's use of the imperative concēde also has a more direct intent: Don't let them move the boundary stone!)

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    References

    • concedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • concedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • concedo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to grant, admit a thing: dare, concedere aliquid
      • to give the palm, the first place (for wisdom) to some one: primas (e.g. sapientiae) alicui deferre, tribuere, concedere

    Portuguese

    Verb

    concedo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of conceder; "I grant"

    Spanish

    Verb

    concedo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of conceder