English
recessive
Recessive comes from Latin recēdō ‘to stand back, recede, be distant or retired’, and goes back to cēdō ‘to be in motion, go, move’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to be in motion, go, move’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēdō‘to stand back, recede, be distant or retired’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915recessive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘to be in motion, go, move’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēdō‘to stand back, recede, be distant or retired’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915recessive
Earliest quotation: 1915, Reginald Crundall Punnett, Mimicty in Butterflies: “Suppose, for example, that we started with a population…”
Formed from -ive
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *kezdō
successor, succession, excessive, procession, successive, inaccessible, 9 more
through Latin cēdō ‘to be in motion, go, move’
process, success, necessary, procedure, succeed, cease, excess, accessible, precedent, concede, predecessor, concession, accession, cessation, cede, secession, intercession, precession, 29 more
Today it means
adj Going back; receding.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / recessive