English
concessio
Concessio comes from Latin concessiō ‘grant, concession’, and goes back to cēdō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdō‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiō‘grant, concession’
- Englishearliest quotation 2022concessio
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdō‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiō‘grant, concession’
- Englishearliest quotation 2022concessio
Earliest quotation: 2022, China Miéville, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto: “This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of…”
Linked words
through Latin cēdō
process, success, necessary, procedure, succeed, cease, excess, precedent, accessible, predecessor, recess, cede, cessation, accession, secession, intercession, 31 more
Today it means
noun The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / concessio