English
cessation
Cessation comes from Latin cessātiō ‘rest, relaxation, respite’, from cessō ‘to stop, desist, halt, cease’, and ultimately from cēdō ‘to withdraw’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to withdraw’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcessō‘to stop, desist, halt, cease’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcessātiō‘rest, relaxation, respite’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600cessation
- Englishearliest quotation 1630cessation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to withdraw’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcessō‘to stop, desist, halt, cease’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcessātiō‘rest, relaxation, respite’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600cessation
- Englishearliest quotation 1630cessation
Earliest quotation: 1630, John Hayward: “The day […]was […]yearly observ'd for a festival Day…”
Equivalent to cease + -ation
Latin cēdō ‘to leave off, go away’
Latin cessō ‘leave off’
Middle French cesser ‘to cease’
Middle English cesen
English cease
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *kezdō
successor, successive, succession, inaccessible, procession, recessive, precession, 9 more
through Latin cēdō ‘to withdraw’
process, success, necessary, procedure, succeed, accessible, excessive, excess, precedent, predecessor, concede, recession, recess, concession, accession, cede, secession, intercession, 28 more
through Latin cessō ‘to stop, desist, halt, cease’
Today it means
noun A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / cessation