concessio

Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛsi.əʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛsi.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛsiəʊ

concessio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.

   Synonym: concession

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

     This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.

From concēdō + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔŋˈkɛs.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛs.si.o]

concessiō f (genitive concessiōnis); third declension

1. permission

   Synonyms: permissiō, concessus, venia

2. grant, concession

   Synonym: concessus

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: concessió
• English: concession
• French: concession
• Galician: concesión
• Italian: concessione
• Portuguese: concessão
• Romanian: concesie, concesiune
• Russian: конце́ссия (koncéssija)
• Spanish: concesión

• “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “concessio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.