Etymology

concede

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Today it means: To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant Full definition →

Middle English [Term?] ← Old French conceder ← Latin concēdō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ked-“to go, yield”
  2. Latin · derived fromconcēdō“give way, yield”
  3. Old French · derived fromconceder
  4. Middle English · inherited from[Term?]
  5. English todayconcede

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).

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