English
recession
Recession comes from Latin recessiō ‘a going back, receding, recession’, and goes back to cēdō ‘to go’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēdō‘recede, retreat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecessiō‘a going back, receding, recession’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1667recession
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēdō‘recede, retreat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecessiō‘a going back, receding, recession’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1667recession
Earliest quotation: a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Of Growth in Sin: “[…]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures…”
Equivalent to recess + -ion
Latin cēdō
Latin recēdō ‘to go back, give ground, retire, withdraw’
Latin recessus ‘act of going back, departure, receding, retiring’
English recess
Linked words
through Latin cēdō ‘to go’
process, success, necessary, procedure, succeed, cease, excess, accessible, precedent, predecessor, concede, concession, cede, cessation, accession, secession, intercession, 30 more
Today it means
noun The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / recession