Etymograph

English

procedure

Procedure is borrowed from French procédure, via Old French, from Latin prōcēdō ‘to go forward, proceed’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōcēdōas procedere‘to go forward, proceed’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocédure
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1627procedure

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōcēdōas procedere‘to go forward, proceed’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocédure
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1627procedure

Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *kezdō

excessive, successor, succession, successive, inaccessible, recessive, precession, 10 more

through Latin cēdō ‘to go, move, proceed, go along, move along’

success, necessary, accessible, excess, succeed, cease, recession, concession, predecessor, accession, precedent, recess, concede, secession, cessation, intercession, cede, 29 more

through Latin procedo ‘to go forward, proceed’

procession, 3 more

Today it means

noun A particular method for performing a task.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin prōcēdō / procedure

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