English
success
Success comes from Latin successus ‘course, flow (of time), approach’, from succēdō ‘succeed’, and ultimately from cēdō ‘go, move’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuccēdō‘succeed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuccessus‘course’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644success
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō‘go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuccēdō‘succeed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuccessus‘course’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644success
Earliest quotation: 1644, John Milton, London: [s.n.]: “I suppose them as at the beginning of no…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *kezdō
procession, inaccessible, recessive, precession, 13 more
through Latin cēdō ‘go, move’
process, necessary, procedure, cease, precedent, excessive, excess, accessible, predecessor, recession, concede, concession, recess, secession, cessation, accession, cede, intercession, 29 more
Today it means
noun The achievement of one's aim or goal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / success