English
concession
Concession comes from Latin concessiō ‘a grant, permission, conceding’, 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‘a grant, permission, conceding’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600concession
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500concession
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1472concession
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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‘a grant, permission, conceding’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600concession
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500concession
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1472concession
Earliest quotation: c. 1472, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV: “Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by…”
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 act of conceding.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / concession